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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 57 SE 199 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Brick Pier, Swanscombe Heritage Park and Craylands Gorge |
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Summary
A brick pier located at the northern end of Craylands/Barnfield Pit, close to the tram tunnel. It of unknown function recorded during a walk over survey in 2004 (location accurate to the nearest 5m based on available information)
| Grid Reference: | TQ 5986 7480 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ57SE |
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| Parish: | SWANSCOMBE AND GREENHITHE, DARTFORD, KENT |
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Monument Types
- COLUMN (Built, Modern - 1901 AD to 2050 AD)
Full description
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At the northern end of Craylands Gorge, immediately to the south west of the tram tunnel entrance leading into Barnfield Pit and to the west of the tramline there is a pier made of hand made (?) bricks laid principally as headers with alternating stretchers at the corners. Random courses laid as stretchers. 3" angle iron bracket bolted to front of pier. There are angle iron brackeks fixed to its western face [1]
<[1]> Wessex Archaeology, March 2004, Swanscombe Heritage Park and Craylands Gorge, Swanscombe, Kent. Archaeological and Geological Desk Based Assessment (Unpublished document). SWX12883.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <[1]>XY | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. March 2004. Swanscombe Heritage Park and Craylands Gorge, Swanscombe, Kent. Archaeological and Geological Desk Based Assessment. [Mapped feature: #87737 pier, ] |
