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Monument details

Summary

Banked earthworks, possibly dating to WWII, visible in 1945, located in Worth. These seventeen extant banks spanned an area in the bend of a drain, which may have been a palaeochannel, alongside the Isle of Dogs. The banks formed no specific monument and are of unknown function. Next Perspectives photography taken in 2003 showed no sign of the banks, as the line of the drain had been moved further S and cut the features.

Monument Types

• BANK (EARTHWORK) (Medieval to Modern - 1066 AD? to 2050 AD)

Full description

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Banked earthworks, possibly dating to WWII, visible on aerial photography taken in 1945 [1], located in Worth. These seventeen extant banks spanned an area measuring 90 x 15m in the bend of a drain, which may have been a palaeochannel, alongside the Isle of Dogs. The banks formed no specific monument and are of unknown function. Next Perspectives photography taken in 2003 [2] showed no sign of the banks, as the line of the drain had been moved further S and cut the features.

Located 100m to the S was another area of banked earthworks (MWX43711).

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: TR3556 14-AUG-2003 (Graphic material). SWX15711.

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