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Monument details
| HER Number: | 1533745 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Nine possible Second World War bomb craters of varying size are visible on aerial photographs of 1946 as earthworks just to the north of Lade. |
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Summary
Nine possible Second World War bomb craters of varying size are visible on aerial photographs of 1946 as earthworks just to the north of Lade. These features were mapped from aerial photographs as part of the South East RCZAS NMP project.
| Grid Reference: | TR 0829 2098 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR02SE |
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| Parish: | LYDD, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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Full description
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The fairly widely dispersed bomb craters are centred at TR 0829 2098, to the north of Taylor Road at Lade, and to the south of Derville Road. They are visible across an area measuring approximately 322m east to west, and 280m north to south. They are unusual in appearance for bomb craters in that they consist of a round mound with a hole or depression in the top. It is thought that a comparatively small bomb might have caused this effect in the loose shingle characteristic of the ground in this area; by a small explosion at the point of impact causing the shingle to be upcast into a circular bank around the small central crater. This is however, speculation, and it is also possible that the shingle was banked-up to conceal structures such as land mines.
A cluster of three possible bomb craters are visible on vertical aerial photographs of 1946 at TR 0830 2111. They measure between five and ten metres across. At TR 0932 2097 there were two measuring nine and ten metres each. Slightly further to the south again, at TR 0834 2090, two craters of five metres in diameter were also visible. The southernmost bomb crater of this group can be seen at TR 0842 2084, and measured approximately seven metres across. These eight possible bomb craters all lie to the east of the southern part of Leonard Road. They had all been either filled-in or built over by the next available aerial photograph of 1959. The largest possible bomb crater lies 190m to the west of Leonard Road at TR 0811 2095, and measures approximately 14m in diameter. It is still faintly visible as a slight earthwork on vertical aerial photographs of 2007 (1-3).
<1> 1946, NMR CPE/UK/1752 3002-3 21-SEPT-1946 (Photograph). SWX23759.
<2> RAF, 1959, NMR RAF/58/2778 0199-0200 01-MAY-1959 (Photograph). SWX23876.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Photograph: 1946. NMR CPE/UK/1752 3002-3 21-SEPT-1946. |
| <2> | Photograph: RAF. 1959. NMR RAF/58/2778 0199-0200 01-MAY-1959. |
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| 1533744 | Parent of: Eleven possible Second World War bomb craters of varying size are visible on aerial photographs of 1946 as earthworks at Lade. (Monument) |
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| MWX51503 | Parent of: Second World War PLUTO (Pipeline Under The Ocean) pumping station (Building) |
| 1533915 | Part of: The sites of three possible Second World War anti-aircraft batteries are visible on aerial photographs of 1946 as earthworks to the north-west of Lade (Monument) |
