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Monument details

HER Number:MWX43032
Type of record:Monument
Name:Bomb crater West of Fordwich

Summary

A WWII bomb crater visible on 1945 RAF vertical aerial photographs.


Grid Reference:TR 17707 59799
Map Sheet:TR15NE
Parish:FORDWICH, CANTERBURY, KENT

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A partly levelled WWII bomb crater visible on 1945 RAF vertical aerial photographs [1]. Appears totally infilled and levelled on 1980 RCHME oblique aerial photography of area [2].

A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [3]


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2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document).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South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document).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

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<3>Unpublished document: Cornwall Council Historic Environment Projects and Gloucestershire County Council. 2011.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.
<3>Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2011. South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report.
<3>Digital archive: Wessex Archaeology. 2009-10. South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions.