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Monument details
HER Number: | MWX43008 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Name: | WWII gun position West of Fordwich |
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Summary
A defended gun position visible in field 146m SE of Black Mill Bridge, Sturry, mapped from 1940s aerial photographs.
Grid Reference: | TR 17549 59867 |
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Map Sheet: | TR15NE |
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Parish: | FORDWICH, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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A defended gun position visible on 1940s RAF aerial photographs [1]. The site was visible as banking defining a circular enclosure around a gun spiggot, it is unclear from photos whether this was sited within a dug pit. The feature appears to have been removed, no visible earthworks on recent aerial photography [2].
This may be the same feature as the anti-tank gun recorded from documentary sources as Mke42807, this lies 225m SW but no features resembling a gun position were seen at its location during NMP mapping.
A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [3].
<2> Google Earth (Graphic material). SWX15704.
<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2009-10, South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions (Digital archive). SWX15705.
<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document). SKE25955.
<3> Cornwall Council Historic Environment Projects and Gloucestershire County Council, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document). SKE25954.
Sources and further reading
Cross-ref.
| Source description | <2> | Graphic material: Google Earth. |
<3> | Unpublished document: Cornwall Council Historic Environment Projects and Gloucestershire County Council. 2011. South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping. |
<3> | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2011. South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report. |
<3> | Digital archive: Wessex Archaeology. 2009-10. South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions. |