Monument record TQ 77 NW 1363 - ?Post-medieval stock refuge mound, Cliffe

The earthwork remains of a small oval mound measuring 10m x 7m, located at TQ 7216 7753. 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 mound is one of four located in a single former field at the southern end of which a 19th century sheepfold has been noted on 1st, 2nd and 3rd edition Ordnance Survey 1:2500 scale maps.
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.