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Monument details
| HER Number: | MWX43628 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | WWII barbed wire on beach, Kingsdown |
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Summary
WWII barbed wire visible in 1946, located on the beach at Kingsdown. The wire ran as a single line, but the southernmost section was visible as a double thickness of wire. Next Perspectives photography taken in 2003 showed the features to have been removed with the site partially in the intertidal zone.
| Grid Reference: | TR 38019 48192 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR34NE |
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| Parish: | RINGWOULD WITH KINGSDOWN, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BARBED WIRE OBSTRUCTION (Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Full description
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WWII barbed wire visible on aerial photographs taken in 1946 [1], located on the beach at Kingsdown. The wire ran for a total of 370m mostly as a single line, but the southernmost 75m were visible as a double thickness of wire. Next Perspectives photography taken in 2003 [2] showed the features to have been removed, with the site partially in the intertidal zone.
This wire was connected in the N to the enclosing barbed wire of a WWII military site (MWX43627). A single line of WWII beach scaffolding lay to the E (MWX43630).
A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photographs exists within a GIS layer held by this HER.
<2> Next Perspectives consortium via English Heritage, 2003, 2007, Next Perspective PGA georeferenced aerial photograph data, Next Perspectives PGA Tile Ref: TR3848 14-AUG-2003 (Graphic material). SWX15711.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | <2> | Graphic material: Next Perspectives consortium via English Heritage. 2003, 2007. Next Perspective PGA georeferenced aerial photograph data. Next Perspectives PGA Tile Ref: TR3848 14-AUG-2003. |
