Monument record TQ 77 NW 55 - The earthwork of a small roughly circular mound, probably a Post Medieval livestock refuge mound or perhaps a saltern

The earthwork of a small roughly circular mound, probably a Post Medieval livestock refuge mound, is visible on aerial photographs taken in 1947. This mound is one of two situated within a field on the coast south of Cliffe Saltings (see also 1531845). The field had been ploughed with narrow drainage channels that have the appearance of ridge and furrow and which predate the mounds. Refuge mounds provided an area of high ground for livestock to occupy in the event of a flood and numerous examples were built on the marshes of the Hoo Peninsula. This site was mapped from aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project.

Other exmaples of such mounds have been interpreted as Roman or medieval salterns based on several excavated examples.

RAF, 1947, RAF CPE/UK/1923 3015-3016 16-JAN-1947 (Photograph). SKE58564.

<1> Historic England, 2012, National Mapping Programme survey: Hoo Peninsula (Digital archive). SKE32442.

<2> English Heritage, 2013, Hoo Peninsula, Kent. Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape Project (Bibliographic reference). SKE31432.

<3> Environment Agency, 2001, LIDAR TQ 7478 Environment Agency D0015741 APR-2001 (Digital archive). SKE57163.