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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 67 NE 1013 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Possible fishtrap by Shornemead Lighthouse |
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Summary
Substantial remains of a fishtrap made of untrimmed logs and large horizontal logs with mortise holes, with a substantial amount of wattle panels on the foreshore.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 69810 75155 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ67NE |
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| Parish: | SHORNE, GRAVESHAM, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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Substantial remains of what seems to be a fishtrap. Consists of large upright untrimmed logs large horizontal logs with some mortise holes cut in the ends, and a substantial amount of wattle panels lying collapsed on the foreshore. The trap is overlain by large pieces of debris from the lighthouse, and navigational light platform. wattling lying in different orientations, two pieces almost definitely at right angles. About 3m to the east there is some organic material that may be a basket? Nearby there is a bone vertebra in the peat about 40m to the east (1).
<1> Wessex Archaeology, 2005, North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report (Unpublished document). SWX12323.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2005. North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report. |
