Monument record TR 36 NE 2737 - Three WWII bomb craters and surrounding upcast, to the north of Ramsgate Harbour

Three WWII bomb craters and surrounding upcast located to the north of Ramsgate Harbour, and visible in military aerial photographs.

The sub-circular craters range in length from 2m to 7m and are first visible in January 1941 [1], and were mapped from photographs taken in December 1941 [2]. They are no longer visible by April 1946 [3].

A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [4].

One of the bomb craters is located at TR 3828 6538 in the playing fields of Chatham House School which was visible on RAF aerial photographs taken in 1941. This was mapped as part of the Historic England: Ramsgate HAZ project. (5)

Wessex Archaeology, 2009-10, South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions (Digital archive). SWX15705.

Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document). SKE25955.

Cornwall Council Historic Environment Projects and Gloucestershire County Council, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document). SKE25954.

<5> RAF, 1941, RAF HLA/380 921 15-DEC-1941 (Photograph). SKE59134.