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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 87 SE 1139
Type of record:Monument
Name:Earthworks enclosing fields on 1st edition OS, now inundated, Sharfleet Saltings

Summary

Earthworks enclosing fields on 1st edition OS, now inundated, Sharfleet Saltings.


Grid Reference:TQ 86335 72470
Map Sheet:TQ87SE
Parish:UPCHURCH, SWALE, KENT

Monument Types

  • SITE (Unknown date)
  • SEA DEFENCES (Earlier than 1870, Post Medieval to Modern - 1870 AD to 1930 AD (pre))

Full description

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Fields shown as reclaimed in 1st, 2nd & 3rd ed OS (1-3), now inundated, photographs (4-21). No visible remains in 2004, and no earthworks were seen on the intertidal mud flats. (22)


<1> Ordnance Survey, 1858-73, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st Edition : 1872-1897 (Map). SWX11831.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1893-7, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 2nd edition : 1893-1898 (Map). SWX11832.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1905-10, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 3rd edition: 1901-1912 (Map). SWX11833.

<4> 2000, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10304.

<5> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9486.

<6> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9494.

<7> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9515.

<8> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9567.

<9> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9568.

<10> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9806.

<11> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9807.

<12> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9818.

<13> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9485.

<14> 2000, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10303.

<15> 2000, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10305.

<16> 2000, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10314.

<17> 2000, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10315.

<18> 1993, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11265.

<19> 1993, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11266.

<20> 1993, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11267.

<21> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9819.

<22> Wessex Archaeology, 2005, North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year One report (Unpublished document). SWX12121.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Map: Ordnance Survey. 1858-73. Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st Edition : 1872-1897. 1:2500.
<2>Map: Ordnance Survey. 1893-7. Ordnance Survey 1:2500 2nd edition : 1893-1898. 1:2500.
<3>Map: Ordnance Survey. 1905-10. Ordnance Survey 1:2500 3rd edition: 1901-1912. 1:2500.
<4>Photograph (Print): 2000. Photograph. 169. print.
<5>Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 3031. print.
<6>Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 3052. print.
<7>Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 3132. print.
<8>Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 4051. print.
<9>Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 4053. print.
<10>Photograph (Print): 1947. Photograph. 3035. print.
<11>Photograph (Print): 1947. Photograph. 3038. print.
<12>Photograph (Print): 1947. Photograph. 4035. print.
<13>Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 3029. print.
<14>Photograph (Print): 2000. Photograph. 167. print.
<15>Photograph (Print): 2000. Photograph. 171. print.
<16>Photograph (Print): 2000. Photograph. 143. print.
<17>Photograph (Print): 2000. Photograph. 145. print.
<18>Photograph (Print): 1993. Photograph. TQ8672/2. print.
<19>Photograph (Print): 1993. Photograph. TQ8672/3. print.
<20>Photograph (Print): 1993. Photograph. TQ8672/4. print.
<21>Photograph (Print): 1947. Photograph. 4038. print.
<22>Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2005. North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year One report.