Monument record TQ 77 NE 55 - Unidentified mound, probable saltern identified by aerial photographs

The earthwork of a small roughly oval 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 1531846). 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. Other mounds have been suggested as salterns. This site was mapped from aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project.