Monument record TQ 77 NW 1362 - ?Post-medieval stock refuge mound, Cliffe

The earthwork remains of a small oval mound measuring 8m x 6m, located at TQ 7268 7741. 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).This was one of two mounds within a field which, according to 19th century OS maps, also contained a sheepfold (recorded in NMR 1531814)'. All the OS maps can then be referenced in the sheepfold record.
The mounds were mapped from RAF 1952 aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project. Since being photographed in 1952 this mound has been destroyed through clay quarrying for the local cement industry. (1-2)

<1> Royal Air Force, 1952, NMR RAF/82/713 0500 06-FEB-1952 (Photograph). SKE58562.

<2> Spurrell, F. C. J., 1885, Early sites and embankments on the margins of the Thames estuary. (Article in serial). SWX7560.