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Monument details
| HER Number: | MWX43051 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Second World War defensive beach scaffolding along the beach at Broadstairs Harbour |
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Summary
Second World War beach scaffolding functioning as beach defences along the beach at Broadstairs Harbour, visible in military aerial photographs.
| Grid Reference: | TR 39835 67677 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR36NE |
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| Parish: | BROADSTAIRS AND ST PETERS, THANET, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BEACH SCAFFOLDING (Modern - 1942 AD to 1945 AD)
Full description
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Second World War defensive beach scaffolding visible along the beach at Broadstairs Harbour, mapped from military aerial photographs.
The beach scaffolding is in two sections along the entire length of exposed beach and measures nearly 400m and 100m.
The scaffolding is first visible and was mapped from aerial photographs taken in May 1942 [1] and is gone by April 1946 [2].
The lengths of scaffolding and barbed wire functioned as beach defences in order to impede the progress of enemy soldiers, vehicles or watercraft, and were extremely common features along the coastline of south-east England.
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2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document).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South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document).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 | Unpublished document: Cornwall Council Historic Environment Projects and Gloucestershire County Council. 2011.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. |
