Monument record TQ 77 NW 1294 - 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 11m, centred at TQ 7249 7708. 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 mounds have been referred to and identified in contemporary writings (Spurrell, 1885). These were mapped from RAF 1947 aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project. Since being photographed in 1947 this mound has 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.