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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 54 NE 357
Type of record:Monument
Name:Possible Wet Gun Cotton Store, Leigh Gunpowder Mills, Tonbridge

Summary

Possible Wet Gun Cotton Store, excavated in 2013 in advance ofdevelopment of the northern site of Leigh Gunpowder Mills.


Grid Reference:TQ 5701 4668
Map Sheet:TQ54NE
Parish:LEIGH, SEVENOAKS, KENT

Monument Types

  • CHEMICAL STORE? (Post Medieval to Modern - 1811 AD? to 1934 AD)

Full description

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Possible Wet Gun Cotton Store, excavated in 2013 in advance ofdevelopment of the northern site of Leigh Gunpowder Mills. From the report:

"Parts of a foundation with an internal partition represent the remains of a building identified as Wet GC Store on the interpretive plan (Rowley 2009a). With no floors, finds or remnant of activities carried on there, interpretation us reliant on Rowley’s work." (1)


<1> AOC Archaeology, 2015, Gunpowder Mills, Leigh, Tonbridge, Kent, A Post-Excavation Assessment (Unpublished document). SKE31577.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Unpublished document: AOC Archaeology. 2015. Gunpowder Mills, Leigh, Tonbridge, Kent, A Post-Excavation Assessment.

Related records

TQ 54 NE 33Part of: Leigh Gunpowder Works (Monument)