Monument record TQ 77 NW 1374 - ?Post-medieval stock refuge mound, Cliffe

The earthwork remains of an oval mound measuring 12m x 20m, centred at TQ 7377 7739. This is one of four adjacent mounds within one field in Cliffe Marshes. Two of these have been noted together in an earlier monument record (Monument Number: 416724).

This site 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 mapped from aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project. (1-2)

<1> RAF, 1953, NMR RAF/82/713 0504 06-FEB-1953 (Photograph). SKE57183.

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