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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 87 NE 1072
Type of record:Monument
Name:Landing stage on foreshore by Yantlett Creek, Allhallows Marshes

Summary

Three eroded wooden piles visible on the foreshore with stones between the piles by Yantlet Creek. Possible remains of a landing stage. Identified during an assessment of the north Kent coast by Wessex Archaeology in 2005.


Grid Reference:TQ 85815 77665
Map Sheet:TQ87NE
Parish:ALLHALLOWS, MEDWAY, KENT

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Three eroded wooden piles, one on the higher part of foreshore, the others beside each other near the water. About 5m x 2m, the piles are 0.4m high, 0.08m-0.1m in diameter. Possibly the remains o a landing stage? Further squared wooden piles to the sides of thelanding stage piles, 0.7m high, .08m x 0.05m, possibly mooring posts? There are stones between the piles. (1)


<1> Wessex Archaeology, 2005, North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report (Unpublished document). SWX12323.

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<1>Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2005. North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report.