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Monument details

HER Number:TR 37 SE 274
Type of record:Monument
Name:Post medieval battery, Kingsgate, Broadstairs and St. Peters

Summary

A post medieval coastal battery is marked on the Drury map of 1769. It may have been used a defense for Holland House. There is no trace of this monument on the Ordnance survey historic maps.

Grid Reference:TR 3957 7060
Map Sheet:TR37SE
Parish:BROADSTAIRS AND ST PETERS, THANET, KENT

Monument Types

  • BATTERY (Post Medieval - 1769 AD? to 1769 AD)

Full description

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PM Coastal Battery marked on Drury map of 1769. Poss. defending Holland House (1) (2)


1965, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11793.

1965, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11793.

1965, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11794.

1965, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11794.

1965, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11795.

1965, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11795.

1983, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11796.

1983, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11796.

1983, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11798.

1983, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11798.

<1> Untitled Source, Wessex Archaeology DBA 1997 (Unpublished document). SKE6451.

<2> Andrews,Dury and Herbert, 1769, Andrews,Dury and Herbert Topographical Map of the County of Kent 1769 (Map). SKE6460.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
---Photograph (Print): 1965. Photograph. TR3970/2. print.
---Photograph (Print): 1965. Photograph. TR3970/3. print.
---Photograph (Print): 1965. Photograph. TR3970/4. print.
---Photograph (Print): 1983. Photograph. TR3970/5. print.
---Photograph (Print): 1983. Photograph. TR3970/7. print.
<1>Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology DBA 1997.
<2>Map: Andrews,Dury and Herbert. 1769. Andrews,Dury and Herbert Topographical Map of the County of Kent 1769.