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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 77 NW 43 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Unidentified mound on Cliffe Marshes, Cliffe |
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Summary
A mound of indeterminate function, possibly relating to salt panning. One of a number of similar features in this area.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7222 7746 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ77NW |
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| Parish: | CLIFFE AND CLIFFE WOODS, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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Small mound similar to others in this area of the marshland around
Cliffe and Cooling. Destroyed by quarrying. (1)
The earthwork remains of a small oval mound measuring 19m x 13m, located at TQ 7226 7746. This is probably an example of a 19th century or earlier stock refuge mound constructed on low-lying pasture within the marshlands of the Hoo Peninsula and the margins of the Thames Estuary. These mounds have been referred to and identified in contemporary writings (Spurrell, 1885).This mound is one of four located in a single former field at the southern end of which a 19th century sheepfold has been noted on 1st, 2nd and 3rd edition Ordnance Survey 1:2500 scale maps.
The mound was mapped from RAF 1952 aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project. Since being photographed in 1952 this mound has been destroyed through clay quarrying for the local cement industry. The adjacent mounds were recorded separately in NMR Monument Records: 1531813, 1531899, 1531901 1nd 1531944.(2-3)
<1> RAF 540/458 F3030 (17-04-51) (OS Card Reference). SKE48948.
<2> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9857.
<3> Royal Archaeological Institute, 1885, The Archaeological Journal (Article in serial). SKE54118.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: RAF 540/458 F3030 (17-04-51). |
| <2>XY | Photograph (Print): 1947. Photograph. 4037. print. [Mapped feature: #25519 mound, ] |
| <3> | Article in serial: Royal Archaeological Institute. 1885. The Archaeological Journal. Vol 42,. |
