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Monument details
| HER Number: | MWX43089 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | WWII coastal defences, King George VI Memorial Park |
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Summary
WWII coastal defences including slit trenching, a banked feature, and a possible gun emplacement, located in the King George VI Memorial Park, south of Dumpton Gap and digitised from military aerial photographs.
| Grid Reference: | TR 39270 65809 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR36NE |
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| Parish: | RAMSGATE, THANET, KENT |
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Full description
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WWII coastal defences including slit trenching, a banked feature, and a possible gun emplacement, located in the King George VI Memorial Park, south of Dumpton Gap and mapped from military aerial photographs.
Photographs taken in January 1941 [1] show a L-shaped slit trench and associated bank (measuring 7m in length). A pillbox is later built next to this trench (Mke39686). There is also a possible square gun emplacement located 90m to the south, measuring 6.3m by 6m and appears to have a central pintle on which a gun could be placed.
In May 1942 [2] a U-shaped bank has been constructed, probably intended as a defensive feature.
The possible gun emplacement has been removed by April 1946 [3] and by September 1948 [4] all of these features have been removed.
A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography as part of the South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey 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2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document).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South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document).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 | Unpublished document: Cornwall Council Historic Environment Projects and Gloucestershire County Council. 2011.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. |
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