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Monument details

HER Number:	TQ 97 SW 24
Type of record:	Monument
Name:	No 2 Bastion, Sheerness Lines, Sheerness

Summary

Part of a series of bastions enclosing Sheerness Dockyard and Blue Town. Construction start date is not clear but it had been completed by 1794. It was more lightly armed than Bastion No.1. The South and west parts of the bastion have been destroyed although the bank was rebuilt in 1978 as a sound barrier to the nearby steel works. Where the moat survives the rampart slopes steeply to a berm above the water-edge revetment. The full height of the rampart is preserved around the exposed part of the bastion

Grid Reference:	TQ 91616 74916
Map Sheet:	TQ97SW
Parish:	SHEERNESS, SWALE, KENT

Monument Types

BASTION (Altered 1970s?, Post Medieval - 1794 AD to 1794 AD (post))

Full description

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References regarding the relation of the site to other defence sites. (1-3).

Royal Commission on Historic Monuments in England, 1995, Sheerness: The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town (Unpublished document). SWX6974.

<1> Sheerness Defences, No 2 Bastion/ink survey (Graphic material). SKE6435.

<2> Sheerness Defences, the Sheerness Lines (Bibliographic reference). SKE6438.

<3> RCHME: Sheerness Defences, Kent (Collection). SKE6533.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref.	Source description
---	Unpublished document: Royal Commission on Historic Monuments in England. 1995. Sheerness: The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town.
<1>	Graphic material: Sheerness Defences, No 2 Bastion/ink survey. PER. PEN.
<2>	Bibliographic reference: Sheerness Defences, the Sheerness Lines. PAP. TYP.
<3>	Collection: RCHME: Sheerness Defences, Kent.

Related records

TQ 97 NW 109

Part of: The Sheerness Lines (Monument)