Provider: - Institution: - Data provided by Europeana Collections- Continual monitoring of works to repair an early brick-built culvert at Tilbury Fort recorded parts of the normally inaccessible ...exterior of a small portion of an underground magazine and walls associated with a now demolished structure believed to be 19th century in date. The works involved the hand excavation of a substantial shaft (2m by 3m) to a depth of c. 4.5m through the earthwork forming the fort's southeast curtain to gain access to a collapsed section of the culvert. The excavation passed through redeposited silty clay material associated with the complete reconstruction of the southeast curtain during the 1860s. A small number of finds, consisting primarily of 19th pottery, were recovered.- All metadata published by Europeana are available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana
Provider: - Institution: - Data provided by Europeana Collections- This condition audit of wall paintings at Hurst Castle includes a wall painting record, general audit information, documentation of ...original materials and execution of the painting, and deterioration and damage including previously used materials and treatment, as well as proposals for treatment and monitoring strategies.- All metadata published by Europeana are available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana
Provider: - Institution: - Data provided by Europeana Collections- A hand-dug pipe trench cut within Archcliffe Fort, Dover, across the lawn between the former married quarters and the Emmaus ...furniture shop showed that a metalled courtyard/parade ground, still extant across much of the interior of the fort, had once extended further to the north-east. This former yard was sealed under a substantial deposit of soil and rubble which supported the present area of grass. The creation of this grassed area apparently occurred during the twentieth century, probably when the new army married quarters were erected on the site sometime after the Second World War. Map and photographic evidence indicate that the courtyard itself was not an original feature of the nineteenth-century fort, being laid down just before, or during, the First World War. The trenching produced only a small quantity of finds, the bulk of which are of nineteenth- and twentieth-century date. A few items from earlier periods, including two prehistoric struck flints and a small medieval pot sherd, were also recovered, but the most noteworthy find was a substantially complete military steel helmet of First World War date.- All metadata published by Europeana are available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana
Provider: - Institution: - Data provided by Europeana Collections- This report summarises the results of a programme of archaeological and architectural research undertaken by Historic England's ...Historic Places Investigation Team (West). Research focused on the development of Stokes Bay's coastal defences from the late 16th to mid-20th century. This includes the mid-19th century Stokes Bay Lines and associated forts, and structures created in 1943-4 in preparation for D-Day.- All metadata published by Europeana are available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana
Provider: - Institution: - Data provided by Europeana Collections- In 2010 the former English Heritage Archaeological Survey and Investigation team undertook a detailed survey of Cliffe Fort, a ...coastal artillery fort built in the 1860s. The fort is located on the Hoo Peninsula, Medway, in the parish of Cliffe and Cliffe Woods, on the south side of the Thames. It is 3 km west of Cliffe village in the area of the former cement works. The fort is a Scheduled Monument and is on the Heritage at Risk register, where, due to flooding, vandalism and partial collapse, the condition of the structure is described as 'very bad'. The fort has had little previous investigation and was identified as needing detailed research by the Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape Project, a multidisciplinary landscape project which aimed to increase our knowledge and understanding of the peninsula in order to contribute to strategic decision-making. The survey results will inform the future management of the site and provide an enhanced designation base. Cliffe Fort was part of a large and expensive defence infrastructure programme undertaken in the 1860s and incorporated the latest in fortification theory and technology. It was one of the last casemated forts with iron shields to be completed. Investigation revealed that despite some almost immediate alterations to the basement magazines, a lack of alteration in the 20th century has preserved a number of areas in the fort that reflect its late 19th century use. Later adaptations for rooftop guns reflect the changing nature of conflict through the 20th century. Research has also revealed that the fort contains one of the best preserved of the rare Brennan torpedo installations, including the remains of a unique rising observation tower.- All metadata published by Europeana are available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana
Provider: - Institution: - Data provided by Europeana Collections- Monitoring of exacavation to unblock existing culvert revealed the remains of two seperate brick walls believed to be part of a row ...of Victorian storehouses within the fort.- All metadata published by Europeana are available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana
Provider: - Institution: - Data provided by Europeana Collections- Pre-Construct Archaeology was commissioned by Historic Royal Palaces to undertake building recording during the replacement of the ...protective timber staircase in the Flamsteed Turret at the White Tower, Tower of London. The timber covers and the underlying stone stair vice built from 1075/79 to 1100 were recorded. Petrological analysis of the steps identified the same 1080 to 1090/93 building break as that seen elsewhere in the fabric of the White Tower around 23m aOD. This hiatus was identified by a change in mortar in the steps and surrounding turret wall (also marked by ashlar blocks to stone rubble construction). Although malmstone was the principal stone-type associated with the medieval steps, it was not used above the building break. Caen stone, Reigate stone and Quarr stone with crisp axe carving were used in the steps approaching the building break. Above the building break, Reigate stone was the most commonly used with Quarr stone and some Bembridge Limestone. The Basement Level steps are late post-medieval in date. The watching brief established that older timber covers still exist over Step 90 to 105 at Gallery Level. The oak covers below Step 90 were late 20th century in appearance with steel nosings housing grit treads. Faint graffiti on one of the timber treads of '1971' may suggest the date that they replaced the earlier scheme. Graffiti on one step showed that it was lifted on 04/04/1991. Datable finds under the covers included a 1960 shilling, 1995 and 2001 tickets and a 2007 leaflet.- All metadata published by Europeana are available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana
Provider: - Institution: - Data provided by Europeana Collections- Survey and analysis of the earthworks and buildings of Darells Battery, a 20th century coastal artillery battery at Landguard Fort ...in Suffolk.- All metadata published by Europeana are available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana
Provider: - Institution: - Data provided by Europeana Collections- Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by English Heritage (now Historic England) to undertake a Phase 1 Desk-based Rapid Coastal Zone ...Assessment Survey of the South East coast of England. The project assesses the extent to which the coastal historic environment is under threat from rising sea levels, coastal erosion, flooding, development and other threats. The South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (SE RCZAS) is part of a wider programme of Rapid Coastal Zone Assessments and as such contributes to the developing national picture of the coastal historic environment. The assessment was undertaken with reference to Defra's Shoreline Management Plan 2 (SMP2) data (from the North Solent SMP2, South Downs SMP2, Isle of Grain to South Foreland SMP2 and South Foreland to Beachy Head SMP2) as well as floodlines supplied by the Environment Agency. The results of Phase 1 will inform the Phase 2 fieldwork.- All metadata published by Europeana are available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana
Provider: - Institution: - Data provided by Europeana Collections- Between April and November 1998, the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME) carried out survey and analysis ...of the buildings, underground structures and earthworks associated with the entrances into the 19th-century fortress on the Western Heights in Dover. Built in two main phases, 1804-16, and 1858-67, the fortress comprised three powerful independent forts and redoubts - the Citadel, the Drop Redoubt and the North Centre Bastion - linked by a series of defensive ditches and banks called the Lines. The result was a continuous barrier closing off the ridge, further protected by sheer cliffs along the southern face. At the end of the first construction phase in 1815, access to the fortress was through two main entrances; the first, South Lines Bridge, was located at the south-western corner and the second, North Entrance, was situated at a narrow point of the ridge towards the north-eastern end of the fortress, where the North Military Road completed its more moderate ascent from Dover town. A third entrance, called South Entrance or Archcliffe Gate, was added in the 1860s as part of a major revision of the southern defences of the Heights. All of the entrances were still in use during the Second World War but in 1963 the imposing Archcliffe Gate was demolished and the North Entrance was by-passed. The South Lines Bridge has been lost to modern road developments. (This was report 27/2001 in a previous series)- All metadata published by Europeana are available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana
