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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 87 NE 118 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Road connecting Grain Fort and Dummy battery, Isle of Grain |
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Summary
Carried in a cutting and a causeway, this road survives as an earthwork between Grain Fort and Dummy Battery. It dates from the late nineteenth century.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 8917 7600 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ87NE |
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| Parish: | ISLE OF GRAIN, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- ROAD (Post Medieval to Modern - 1867 AD? to 2007 AD)
Full description
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Covered way between Grain Fort and Dummy Battery, consisting of 4 metre high rampart with a trackway below on its Eastern side. An unusual and extensive feature- may be part tunnelised (1).
Site photographs (2-6).
References to other defence sites in Kent (7).
The Field Survey Report refers to this feature as a 'road', specially constructed to connect Grain Fort [TQ 87 NE 8] with Dummy Battery [TQ 87 NE 10]. Part of the road was carried in a cutting and part on a causeway (see enclosed maps in the field survey report). The cutting lies north of Smithfield Road (589090,176330), the causeway is to the south (589193,175896). [8]
LINEAR EARTHWORK FORMING ENCLOSURE AND RECLAMATION OF SALTMARSH. From the above evidence this interpretation seems highly unlikely. [9].
<1> Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy, Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites (Index). SKE6445.
<2> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9555.
<3> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9557.
<4> 1942, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10000.
<5> 2000, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10236.
<6> 2000, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10238.
<7> Kent County Council, 1999, Survey of Kent post-1500 defence sites, KD95 (Index). SWX11828.
<8> RCHME, 1998, Coastal Artillery Fortifications on the Isle of Grain, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE12515.
<9> Wessex Archaeology, 2001, North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey Phase II: Preliminary Field Investigation (Unpublished document). SWX11839.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Index: Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy. Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites. |
| <2> | Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 4018. print. |
| <3> | Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 4026. print. |
| <4> | Photograph (Print): 1942. Photograph. 32. print. |
| <5> | Photograph (Print): 2000. Photograph. 54. print. |
| <6> | Photograph (Print): 2000. Photograph. 59. print. |
| <7> | Index: Kent County Council. 1999. Survey of Kent post-1500 defence sites. KD95. |
| <8> | Unpublished document: RCHME. 1998. Coastal Artillery Fortifications on the Isle of Grain, Kent. |
| <9> | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2001. North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey Phase II: Preliminary Field Investigation. |
Related records
| TQ 87 NE 8 | Part of: Grain Fort and associated coastal artillery fortifications, Isle of Grain (Monument) |
