Monument record TQ 77 NE 1308 - The earthwork of a small rectangular mound, probably a post medieval livestock refuge mound

The earthwork of a small oval mound, probably a post medieval livestock refuge mound, is visible on aerial photographs taken in 1953. This mound was at TQ 7885 7832 and was the only mound within a field called The Mean on St Mary's Marshes and has since been levelled. The field had been ploughed with narrow drainage channels that have the appearance of ridge and furrow and which predate the mound. 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. This site was mapped from aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project.(1-2)

<1> Royal Air Force, 1953, RAF 82/713 180-181 6-FEB-1953 (Photograph). SKE58574.

<2> Historic England, Historic England Archive (Archive). SKE58567.