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Monument details
| HER Number: | MWX43065 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Possible WWII gun position (or an old bomb crater) north-east of Fordwich |
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Summary
A possible embanked gun position is visible on 1945 aerial photographs North East of Fordwich. It is unclear if it still exists and whether it is an embanked gun position or an old bomb crater.
| Grid Reference: | TR 18479 60089 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR16SE |
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| Parish: | WESTBERE, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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A depression in the ground surrounded by bank is visible on 1945 RAF vertical aerial photographs [1]. It is unclear whether it is an embanked gun position or an old bomb crater. Modern aerial photographs [2] show this area as covered in scrub so it is unclear if the feature still exists.
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2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document).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South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document).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.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <2> | Graphic material: Google Earth. |
| <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 | Unpublished document: Cornwall Council Historic Environment Projects and Gloucestershire County Council. 2011.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 | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2011.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. |
