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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 97 NW 136 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Mine Control Post Harbour Defence, Bastion No.1, Sheerness Lines, Sheerness |
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Summary
Brick built minefield control post built probably during WW1
| Grid Reference: | TQ 91612 75261 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ97NW |
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| Parish: | SHEERNESS, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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A small brick built structure on the northern side of Bastion No.1, just to thew rear fo the 19th century and WW2 gun emplacements. It was probably built during the First World War as a minefield control post. It has an armoured roof, a slit 0.5m high in the seaward side and a legde and recesses inside (1)
<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments in England, 1995, Sheerness: The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town (Unpublished document). SWX6974.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Royal Commission on Historic Monuments in England. 1995. Sheerness: The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town. |
