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Monument details

Summary

A defended gun position visible in field 146m SE of Black Mill Bridge, Sturry, mapped from 1940s aerial photographs.

Monument Types

• MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT (Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

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2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document).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South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document).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.

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