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Monument details
| HER Number: | MWX43010 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Second World War coastal defences south of Joss Bay, North Foreland |
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Summary
Three associated Second World War coastal defences comprising of 2 possible gun emplacements and a barbed wire enclosure located south of Joss Bay, North Foreland, comprising two possile gun emplacements and a barbed wire enclosure.
| Grid Reference: | TR 40140 69583 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR46NW |
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| Parish: | BROADSTAIRS AND ST PETERS, THANET, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BARBED WIRE ENTANGLEMENT (Modern - 1942 AD to 1945 AD)
- GUN EMPLACEMENT (Modern - 1942 AD to 1945 AD)
Full description
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Three closely associated Second World War coastal defences located south of Joss Bay, North Foreland. The features comprise two possible gun emplacements and a barbed wire enclosure, and were mapped from military aerial photographs taken in 1942.
The possible gun emplacements are both open rectangular structures in plan (measuring 2m by 1.4m and 3.5m sqaured) with an entrance, and have been substantially banked up around the exterior. The two structures are located 23m apart.
Just over 20m to the south of these possible gun emplacements is a rectangular enclosure of barbed wire that on the southern side is three lengths deep.
The features were first visible on military aerial photographs taken in May 1942 [1]. The most northerly of the three structures is gone by the 4th of April 1946 [2]. All the remaining features are gone by April 1950 [3].
A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [4].
<4> Wessex Archaeology, 2009-10, South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions (Digital archive). SWX15705.
<4> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document). SKE25955.
<4> 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.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <4> | Unpublished document: 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. |
| <4> | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2011. South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report. |
| <4> | Digital archive: Wessex Archaeology. 2009-10. South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions. |
