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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 87 NW 1045
Type of record:Monument
Name:Groynes on foreshore by Allhallows Holiday Park, Allhallows

Summary

Three eroded wooden piles in a row, probably the remains of groynes on the foreshore by Allhallows Holiday Park. Identified during an assessment of the north Kent coast by Wessex Archaeology in 2005


Grid Reference:TQ 84203 78650
Map Sheet:TQ87NW
Parish:ALLHALLOWS, MEDWAY, KENT

Monument Types

  • GROYNE (Modern - 1901 AD? to 2005 AD?)

Full description

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Three eroded wooden piles in a row, probably the remains of groyne at this site before the seawall was built. The structure is 4m long, the piles around 0.6 m high, and 0.14 in diameter. Further abandoned groynes visible 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Archaeology, 2005, North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report (Unpublished document).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

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Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2005.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