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Monument details

Summary

The site of an Anti Aircraft Battery is visible on aerial photographs from the 1940’s, today little of the battery is visible but on the terrace on which it was situated is a west, a small rectangular area is defined by a low bank 0.4m high, on the inner face of which are the remains of a concrete block wall; this defines the gun emplacement. A number of associated structures are also present including: shelters and store as well as a further emplacement at the eastern end of the complex. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• AMMUNITION DUMP (Demolished, Modern - 1939 AD? to 1945 AD?)
• ANDERSON SHELTER (Disused, Modern - 1939 AD? to 1945 AD?)
• GUN EMPLACEMENT (Demolished, Modern - 1939 AD? to 1945 AD?)
• SHELTER (Disused, Modern - 1939 AD? to 1945 AD?)

Full description

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Summarised from report:

The site of an Anti Aircraft Battery is visible on aerial photographs from the 1940’s, today little of the battery is visible but on the terrace on which it was situated is a west, a small rectangular area is defined by a low bank 0.4m high, on the inner face of which are the remains of a concrete block wall; this defines the gun emplacement. On its north-east and south faces are three concrete boxes, each one 0.91m wide, 0.72m deep and 0.55m high, forming ammunition lockers for ready-use. The southern two lockers abut a small rectangular structure, constructed of single-thickness concrete blocks, with a flat roof pierced by a central iron pipe, and a sunken floor reached through a doorway in the west wall, 1.15m wide. This structure was probably a shelter for the gun crew. To the south, cut into the glaçis, is a small Anderson-type shelter, with its corrugated roof intact. Finally, east of the emplacement on its own small platform, is a small circular concrete pad with several fixing bolts: this would seem to be another gun holdfast, possibly from an earlier phase arrangement.(1)

<1> RCHME, 2001, The Western Heights, Dover, Kent. Report No 10: Miscellaneous Structures 1850-1945 (Unpublished document). SKE17506.

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