NHER 19707 (Monument record) - Site of post medieval sluice
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG42SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | WINTERTON ON SEA, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK |
| Civil Parish | HORSEY, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
1921. Revealed at exceptionally low tide.
Timber sluice. Not shown on (S1) but marked as 'floodgate' on (S2).
Information from [1], whose father saw it.
A. Gregory (NAU), 10 November 1983.
19 February 1985. Visit. On beach immediately east of above and above normal high water mark.
Alignment of stakes about 50cm wide, aligned with coast (northwest to southeast), length 31m, at southeast end turning at 90 degrees and continuing for 5m to southwest. Stakes, probably birch, diameter 4 to 10cm set in degraded concrete or mortar, in all about 80cm wide. 30m to northwest an area of in situ peat, also just above high water mark, about 30m across.
A. Rogerson (NAU), 19 February 1985.
[2] later reported an extra 9m (10 yards) possibly on southwest arm.
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Record last edited
Oct 4 2012 3:15PM