Post by gillyarchaeology on May 21, 2015 11:26:23 GMT
I am currently carrying out some research of the deneholes in Barnehurst, and on a 1945 aerial photograph, on the golf course, there is a large circular shape. On the 2003 aerial photo when the grass was very dry, it can still be clearly seen.
There were several deneholes on the golf course and I have the grid references, but this does not look like one. I also know that there was a large circular drum filled with water during ww2 somewhere in Barnehurst from an eye witness account, but I believe the spot they were talking about was in fact a denehole excavation (corner of old manor way). Was this circular feature the water drum for ww2? Water needed for the allotments?
I thought it was perhaps a HAA Battery (heavy anti-aircraft), but spoken to Andy Brockman from Digging Dads Army, and he thinks it could be a bomb crater, as similar to a feature at Shooters Hill.
Does anyone else have any ideas?
Maybe I should organise a little excavation over there!
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