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Monument details

Summary

Largely overgrown by vegetation the remains of a gun battery survive on top of the Indented Lines, Sheerness. The group of structures includes an engine room for electric lights, stores and 2 x 12 pounder QF gun positions as well as a further battery of two guns that was abandoned in 1899. There is an entrance to the west.

Monument Types

• BATTERY (BATTERY, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1899 AD)
• BATTERY (Post Medieval to Modern - 1894 AD? to 1945 AD?)
• ENGINE HOUSE (Modern - 1901 AD to 2050 AD?)

Full description

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Rampart to the right of Albemarle Battery. Concrete aprons but battery badly mutilated. May be slight traces remaining (1), site photographs (2,3).

Largely overgrown by vegetation the remains of a gun battery survive on top of the Indented Lines, Sheerness. The group of structures includes an engine room for electric lights, stores and 2 x 12 pounder QF gun positions as well as a further battery of two guns that was abandoned in 1899. There is an exntrance ot the west.(4)

<1> Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy, Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites (Index). SKE6445.

<2> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9556.

<3> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9810.

<4> Scott Wilson, 2013, Sheerness Port: Historic Environment Assessment Report (Unpublished document). SKE29508.

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