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Monument details
| HER Number: | 1533475 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | DUNGENESS WEST EMERGENCY COASTAL BATTERY |
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Summary
An extensive stretch of Second World War anti-invasion beach scaffolding is visible on aerial photographs of 1942 and 1946 as a structure extending westwards around Dungeness headland as far as the Dengemarsh Gut Sharfts, and northwards up to Battery Road. The beach scaffolding had been removed by the time of vertical aerial photographs of 1962. This feature was mapped from aerial photographs as part of the South East RCZAS NMP project.
| Grid Reference: | TR 0927 1685 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR01NE |
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| Parish: | LYDD, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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This length of defensive scaffolding is roughly centred at TR 0927 1685, on the headland at Dungeness. It extends along the coast westwards and northwards for a total of approximately 4.6km. It runs from the Dengemarsh Gut Shafts in the west, to just to the south of Battery Road in the north. Smaller lengths of beach scaffolding branch off from the main seafront stretch to extend inland at three points (TR 0942 1749, TR 0911 1677 and TR 0881 1665). The beach scaffolding continues along the coast to either side of the stretch recorded here. These lengths of scaffolding have been recorded as Monument Numbers 1533948 and 1538537.
Along its length, the beach scaffolding was closely associated with a number of contemporary Second World War defensive structures, such as coastal batteries, barbed wire, weapons pits and slit trenches (Monument Number 1533417). By the time of the next available vertical aerial photographs of 1962; the defensive scaffolding had all been removed (1-4).
<1> RAF, 1942, NMR RAF/FNO/25 6038-6039 26-JUN-1942 (Photograph). SWX23910.
<2> Vertical aerial photograph reference number (Unspecified Type). SWX23824.
<3> 1962, NMR MAL/62513 98004-6 11-APR-1962 (Photograph). SWX23771.
<4> 1962, NMR MAL/62513 98004-6 11-APR-1962 (Photograph). SWX23771.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Photograph: RAF. 1942. NMR RAF/FNO/25 6038-6039 26-JUN-1942. |
| <2> | (No record type): Vertical aerial photograph reference number. |
| <3> | Photograph: 1962. NMR MAL/62513 98004-6 11-APR-1962. |
| <4> | Photograph: 1962. NMR MAL/62513 98004-6 11-APR-1962. |
Related records
| MWX51319 | Parent of: DUNGENESS EAST EMERGENCY COASTAL BATTERY (Monument) |
| 1533417 | Parent of: DUNGENESS WEST EMERGENCY COASTAL BATTERY (Monument) |
| 1533410 | Parent of: Extensive beachfront Second World War barbed wire defences are visible on aerial photographs of 1943 (Monument) |
| TR 01 NE 238 | Parent of: LIGHT ANTI AIRCRAFT (DIVER) BATTERY RL51 (Monument) |
| MWX51507 | Parent of: Possible WWII gun emplacement or weapons pit, and a possible bunker or air-raid shelter (Monument) |
| MWX51537 | Parent of: Second World War anti-invasion beach scaffolding (Monument) |
| MWX51339 | Parent of: Second World War coastal battery, Dungeness (Monument) |
| MWX51349 | Parent of: Second World War light anti-aircraft (Diver) battery (Monument) |
| MWX51533 | Parent of: Second World War military site (Monument) |
| MWX51318 | Part of: DUNGENESS WEST EMERGENCY COASTAL BATTERY (Monument) |
| MWX51472 | Part of: Second World War anti-invasion beach scaffolding (Monument) |
