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Monument details

Summary

REMAINS OF GLADYS, BRITISH BARGE

Monument Types

• WRECK (hulked prior to 1961, Post Medieval to Modern - 1897 AD to 1961 AD (pre))

Full description

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Method of Fix: Aerial Photograph Interpretation Photograph Number: KCC 1961 Line 6: 2050 Registration No. ROCHESTER 106528 Gladys was built at Rochester by Gill in 1897. She was owned successively by Watson, L.R.T.C. and the War Department. Her remains are noted as visible in 1986 (1). On aerial photographs this site appears as one of 8 barges lying at the edge of the marsh. KCC 1961 Line 7: 6858 Shows the group on the intertidal mud at low tide. This can be compared with KCC 1967: 1393 on which the group appear rather deeper in the mud. The area is not covered on the 1985 survey. On the 1990 survey (KCC 1990 Line 8: 0146) the group is visible but appears to have become more covered by mud. Those to the north are particularly difficult to discern as separate entities. (1)

Position taken from 1946 aerial photograph (2). Contradicts alignment in (1). Site identified during 2002 survey and comprises a wooden barege mostly dispersed has an iron grder for a keel one end post still remians (3).

<1> Society for Spiritsail Barge Research, 1996, The last berth of the sailorman, 9.3.g., Page Nos. N/a (Bibliographic reference). SKE6419.

<2> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9516.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2002, North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey Phase II: Field Assessment (Pilot) (Bibliographic reference). SWX11840.

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