Monument record TQ 77 NW 1289 - One of five adjacent oval mounds, probably an example of a 19th century or earlier stock refuge mound

The earthwork remains of a small oval mound measuring 8m x 10m, centred at TQ 7280 7676. One of five adjacent mounds, this is probably an example of a 19th century or earlier stock refuge mound constructed on low-lying pasture within the marshlands of the Hoo Peninsula and the margins of the Thames Estuary. These were mapped from RAF 1953 aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project. Since being photographed in 1953 these mounds have been destroyed through clay quarrying for the local cement industry. (1-2)

<1> RAF, 1953, NMR RAF/82/713 0717 06-FEB-1953 (Photograph). SKE58557.

<2> Spurrell FCJ,, 1885, Early Sites and Embankments on the Margins of the Thames Estuary (Article in serial). SKE53799.