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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 67 NW 1025 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Anti-tank blocks / sea defences Broadness |
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Summary
Concrete anti-tank blocks or possibly sea defence blocks on the foreshore at Broadness.
Location accurate to 2m based on available information
| Grid Reference: | TQ 60533 76699 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ67NW |
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| Parish: | SWANSCOMBE AND GREENHITHE, DARTFORD, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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A possible WW2 tank trap, comprising around 24 large concrete blocks, there may be others in the river channel not visible each one is approximately 1.5m x1.5m. An alternative interpretation is that they are the remains of a collapsed sea defence attempt, perhaps to protect the beacon at Broadness. (1)
Location accurate to 2m based on available information
<1> Wessex Archaeology, 2005, North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report (Unpublished document). SWX12323.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2005. North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report. |
