Monument record TQ 77 NW 1290 - 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 9.5m x 14.5m, centred at TQ 7272 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 1947 aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project. Since being photographed in 1947 these mounds have been destroyed through clay quarrying for the local cement industry. (1-2)

<1> Royal Air Force, 1923, RAF CPE/UK/1923 4037 16-JAN-1947 (Photograph). SKE58556.

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