Monument record TQ 77 NE 1056 - Mound on the Cliffe Saltings by Cooling Marshes, Cliffe

A mound, diameter about 10m, and about 1.3 m high. Possibly a product of a salt working site? (1)

The earthwork of a small roughly oval mound, probably a post medieval livestock refuge mound, is visible on aerial photographs taken in 1947. This mound is at TQ 7568 7909 and is one of three situated within a field on the coast by the parish boundary with Cooling (NMR 1531822 & 1531824). 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 site was mapped from aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project.(2-3)

<1> Wessex Archaeology, 2005, North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report (Unpublished document). SWX12323.

<2> RAF, 1947, RAF CPE/UK/1923 3014 16-JAN-1947 (Photograph). SKE58563.

<3> Environment Agency, 2001, LIDAR TQ 7478 Environment Agency D0015741 APR-2001 (Digital archive). SKE57163.