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Monument details

HER Number:MWX43077
Type of record:Monument
Name:WWII coastal military defences, south of Dumpton Gap

Summary

WWII coastal military defences, including a gun emplacement, a building and several footprints for structures, a square walled structure (possible gun emplacement) and slit trenching, located south of Dumpton Gap and digitised from aerial photographs.

Grid Reference:TR 39521 66356
Map Sheet:TR36NE
Parish:BROADSTAIRS AND ST PETERS, THANET, KENT

Monument Types

  • BANK (EARTHWORK) (Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
  • GUN EMPLACEMENT (Modern - 1939 AD to 1942 AD)
  • MACHINE GUN POST (Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
  • MILITARY BUILDING (Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
  • SLIT TRENCH (Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
  • HARD STANDING (Modern - 1942 AD to 1945 AD)

Full description

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WWII coastal military defences, including a gun emplacement, a building and several rectangular hard standings, a square walled structure (possible gun emplacement) and slit trenching, located south of Dumpton Gap, and mapped from aerial photographs taken in 1941 and 1942.

The earliest features are first visible in January 1941 [1] and include a circular gun emplacement with a central pintle measuring 9m in diameter, a slit trench and associated bank measuring 12m in length and a square open structure, possibly functioning as another gun emplacement measuring 5m in length.

By May 1942 [2] the square gun emplacement has been removed. However, a structure has been constructed beside the slit trench (5m to the east) measuring 5m by 3.5m, and four rectangular areas of hard standing are visible in a row to the south of the slit trenching that range from to 3.5-6m long and 3-5m wide.

By April 1936 [3] the circular gun emplacement and the military building have been removed, and by August 1947 [4] the hard standing features and the slit trenching are also gone.

A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [5].


<5> Wessex Archaeology, 2009-10, South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions (Digital archive). SWX15705.

<5> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document). SKE25955.

<5> 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
<5>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.
<5>Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2011. South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report.
<5>Digital archive: Wessex Archaeology. 2009-10. South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions.