Monument record TQ 77 NW 1385 - ?Post-medieval stock refuge mound, Cliffe

The earthwork remains of a small sub-circular mound measuring approximately 8.5m x 9m which was seen at TQ 7488 7743. 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. Such mounds have been referred to and identified in contemporary writings (Spurrell, 1885).

This site is one of two similar mounds located c. 75m apart in the same field. The other mound is recorded separately as NMR Monument Number : 1532772.

Both have been mapped from 1953 RAF aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project. (1-2)

<1> RAF, 1953, NMR RAF/82/713 0506 06-FEB-1953 (Photograph). SKE58857.

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