Monument record MWX51533 - Second World War military site
Summary
Location
Grid reference | Centred TR 0644 1674 (-489700m by -489700m) (67 map features) |
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Map sheet | TR01NE |
County | KENT |
District | FOLKESTONE AND HYTHE, KENT |
Civil Parish | LYDD, SHEPWAY, KENT |
Map
Type and Period (6)
Full Description
This Second World War military site is centred at TR 0644 1674, and extends across an area measuring approximately 570m east to west and 375m north to south. A line of anti-tank cubes continues up the Dengmarsh Sewer to the NNW, but is beyond the edge of the project boundary of the South East RCZAS NMP, so was not included in the transcription. This site includes a wiggly network of slit trenches linking a range of gun emplacements, weapons pits, and a pillbox. A line of concrete anti-tank cubes is visible on a SSE to NNW alignment through the centre of the site, along the line of the Dengemarsh Gut Shafts. The site is protected to the east and west by barbed wire, and to the seafront (south) by anti-invasion beach scaffolding (Monument Numbers 1538537, 1533475). Three large bomb craters are visible to the east of the main site at TR 0679 1688, TR 0684 1679, and TR 0744 1671. The last of these three no lies beneath the Power Station at Dungeness. The first two are still faintly visible on the most recently available vertical aerial photographs of 2007. The structures and earthworks of the small defended Second World War military site are no longer visible by the time of vertical aerial photographs of 1958 (1-2).
<1> RAF, 1941, NMR RAF/GHQ/106 61-2 14-MAY-1941 (Photograph). SWX23916.
<2> RAF, 1958, NMR RAF/543/328 0104-5 09-JUL-1958 (Photograph). SWX23869.
Sources/Archives (2)
Finds (0)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Related Monuments/Buildings (2)
Related Events/Activities (1)
- Non-Intrusive Event: South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (Ref: 71330) (EWX10073)
Record last edited
Dec 2 2024 3:48PM