Monument Number 1546255 |
Hob Uid: 1546255 | |
Location : Medway Hoo St. Werburgh
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Grid Ref : TQ7588371637 |
Summary : A possible First World War redoubt or practice fieldwork is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and has been mapped as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project. The site appears as a U-shaped enclosure comprising a very slight bank with an outer ditch. A possible weapons pit or gun emplacement is incorporated into the bank. The enclosure is situated on Hoo Common about 165m to the north of the Beacon Hill First World War anti aircraft battery (Monument 1474255). This part of Hoo Common is noted on a War Department map of Lodge Hill field defences, 1914-16, as part of the "New field works ground". The enclosure is very similar in overall appearance to other earthworks described on the War Department map as redoubts (for example Monuments 1546165 and 1546125), and also to adjacent field works on Hoo Common (Monuments 1546221) and another to the south east (Monument 1546275). It bears some resemblance to practice works on the main area of the First World War field works ground 700m to the west (Monument 1545095), particularly a group of trenches near Islingham Farm. |
More information : TQ 7587 7162. A possible First World War redoubt or practice fieldwork is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and has been mapped as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project. The site appears as a U-shaped enclosure comprising a very slight bank with an outer ditch. A possible weapons pit or gun emplacement is incorporated into the bank. The enclosure, whose dimensions are 32m by 22.9m overall, is situated on Hoo Common about 165m to the north of the Beacon Hill First World War anti aircraft battery (Monument 1474255). This part of Hoo Common is noted on a War Department map of Lodge Hill field defences, 1914-16, as part of the "New field works ground". The enclosure is very similar in overall appearance to other earthworks described on the War Department map as redoubts (for example Monuments 1546165 and 1546125), and also to adjacent field works on Hoo Common (Monuments 1546221 and another to the south east (Monument 1546275). It bears some resemblance to practice works on the main area of the First World War field works ground 700m to the west (Monument 1545095), particularly a group of trenches near Islingham Farm at TQ 7501 7168. (1-2) |