Field Survey by RCHME of Second World War A-A Batteries at Bowaters Farm, East Tilbury, Thurrock, 1994 - EEX52863

Full survey of the site which in 1994 was a rough paddock, becoming densely overgrown in places. In May 1994, the Cambridge Field Archaeology office of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England carried out a survey of two anti-aircraft gun batteries, at Bowaters Farm, Thurrock, Essex. The survey was undertaken as part of the East Thames Corridor Project (see Event record 932462) but was recommended for recording by Essex County Council. The site was chosen for detailed recording because it is unusual in that it preserves two types of battery and a host of associated buildings spanning the war years, and because such sites are now rare and frequently threatened. The survey, at RCHME Level 3 specification, recorded Ordnance Survey control and the details of the buildings and earthworks using a Wild TC1610 theodolite with integral EDM, and plotted at 1:500 and 1:2500 scales.