Monument record TQ 77 NE 1349 - ?Post Medieval livestock refuge mound, High Halstow

The earthwork of a small roughly rectangular mound, probably a post medieval livestock refuge mound, is visible on aerial photographs taken in 1947. This mound, since levelled, was one of two situated within a field on the coast to the east of Egypt Bay and was centred at TQ 7684 7944. The field had been ploughed with narrow drainage channels that have the appearance of ridge and furrow and which predate the mounds. 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 was mapped from aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project.(1-2)

<1> RAF, 1947, RAF CPE/UK/1923 3009-3010 16-JAN-1947 (Photograph). SKE58834.

<2> EARTH.GOOGLE.COM, 2011, EARTH.GOOGLE.COM 31-DEC-2003 ACCESSED 3-FEB-2011 (Photograph). SKE58835.