Monument record 7987 - Possible Searchlight Battery Near Higher Kinderfields

<1> Bluesky International Ltd, 2010, 2010 Bluesky Survey (Aerial Photograph). SCH5444.

Three sub-circular depressions or pits are visible on a slight promontory on the hillside behind Higher Kinderfields. They cut through some narrow ridge and furrow.

<2> Environment Agency, 2003-2020, Environment Agency LiDAR Surveys, 1m DSM (composite) (Digital Archive). SCH7819.

The pits appear near circular and are arranged in a clover leaf pattern.

<3> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edwards R, 07/08/2017 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

These may be small extraction pits, though the cloverleaf arrangement of three circular features is a characteristic feature of Second World War searchlight batteries.

<4> Higham N J, 1984-9, Professor Nick Higham's Aerial Photographs, 1988/2/2/25 (Aerial Photograph). SCH7659.