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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 34 SW 543 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Langdon Battery Perimeter Fence |
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Summary
Langdon Battery Perimeter Fence Earthwork
| Grid Reference: | TR 3390 4238 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR34SW |
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| Parish: | ST MARGARET’S AT CLIFFE, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FENCE (Modern - 1901 AD to 2050 AD)
Full description
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Earthwork bank and ditch surrounding Langdon Battery. Remains of iron railing fence set into concrete footings. Described as an 'unclimable' fence 6'6" high and reinforced with barbed wire entanglement (dannert wire). The bank is well preserved on the eastern and southern side but has been ploughed out on the northern side. On the south side the earthwork comprises a double bank (3m wide and 1.25m high) and ditch (3m wide by 1m deep). The earthworks are heavily overgrown with scrub (1)
<1> Nicola Bannister, 1999, Langdon Cliffs Survey (Unpublished document). SKE6595.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Nicola Bannister. 1999. Langdon Cliffs Survey. |
Related records
| TR 34 SW 213 | Part of: Langdon Battery, St. Margaret's at Cliffe (Building) |
