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Monument details
| HER Number: | MWX43063 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Second World War military defence features, south of Broadstairs Harbour |
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Summary
Second World War military defence features (gunpits and trenches) on the coast to the south of Broadstairs Harbour, mapped from aerial photographs.
| Grid Reference: | TR 39725 67262 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR36NE |
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| Parish: | BROADSTAIRS AND ST PETERS, THANET, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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Second World War military defence features visible as earthworks and is located on the coast to the south of Broadstairs Harbour, mapped from aerial photographs taken in 1942.
The features include three circular gun emplacements located less than 2m from one another in a triangle. These gun pits are thought to be constructed from sandbags and have an average internal diameter of 2.85m. Around the boundary of property there are three trench and bank features, presumably associated with the gun emplacements and also the property.
These features are first visible in, and have been mapped from, aerial photographs taken in May 1942 [1] and are gone by April 1946 [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2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document).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South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document).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
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| 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 | Unpublished document: Cornwall Council Historic Environment Projects and Gloucestershire County Council. 2011.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. |
