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Monument details

HER Number:	TQ 77 NW 1005
Type of record:	Maritime
Name:	Remains of possible undated burnt boat, by Cliffe Creek

Summary

Outline of a possible boat identified, with carbonised timbers, near Cliffe Creek

Grid Reference:	TQ 708 771
Map Sheet:	TQ77NW
Parish:	CLIFFE AND CLIFFE WOODS, MEDWAY, KENT

Monument Types

SITE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
WRECK (Burnt down, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

BOAT (Undated)

Full description

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Possible remains of the outline of a boat, nearly 20ft long, discovered in a channel of hardened ooze. The timbers were carbonised. Associated with other nearby occupation debris. (1). There are stones lying on foreshore, but no other structures were visible during the 2005 coastal survey (2)

<1> Archaeologia Cantiana, 1966, I, Reports on excavations, II, Reports from local secretaries and groups., p.lv (Article in serial). SWX7497.

<2> 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Archaeology, 2005, North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report (Unpublished document).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>	Article in serial: Archaeologia Cantiana. 1966. I, Reports on excavations, II, Reports from local secretaries and groups.. 81, pages xlvii-lxvi; 235-51. p.lv.
<2>	Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2005. North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report.