Monument record TR 34 SW 2059 - Earthwork defences of the Citadel Battery, Western Heights, Dover
Summary
Location
Grid reference | Centred TR 3042 4030 (206m by 115m) (3 map features) |
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Map sheet | TR34SW |
County | KENT |
District | DOVER, KENT |
Civil Parish | DOVER, DOVER, KENT |
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Full Description
Summarised from report:
The earthwork defences of the Citadel Battery consist of a sloping glacis on the seaward face falling to a steeper scarp, at the foot of which was a broad barbed wire entanglement and beyond that a strained wire fence and a counterscarp bank. This defence was also carried around the western end of the battery, which occupied the whole width of the narrow ridge top, thereby closing off access from this direction. This original profile is largely intact, though much obscured by scrub growth, with the glacis falling away from the concrete gun aprons to the steeper scarp 2.4m high. At the western end of the battery there is a more gentle slope for some 6.0m before a shallow ditch 2.8m wide by 0.2m deep. The ditch itself supports a modern fence and two or three of the uprights survive from a predecessor. The counterscarp bank beyond it is in good condition. (1)
<1> RCHME, 2000, The Western Heights, Dover, Kent. Report No 8: The Citadel Battery: An early 20th-century coastal battery (Unpublished document). SKE17504.
Sources/Archives (1)
- <1>XY SKE17504 Unpublished document: RCHME. 2000. The Western Heights, Dover, Kent. Report No 8: The Citadel Battery: An early 20th-century coastal battery. [Mapped feature: #92409 Earthwork defences of the Citadel Battery, Western Heights, Dover, ]
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Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
Related Events/Activities (1)
- Non-Intrusive Event: Survey of the Citadel Battery, Dover Western Heights fortress (EKE11881)
Record last edited
Mar 1 2019 2:28PM