Letter: ‘Lentune Island’ is a spit extension 'Castle Point'

SIR – I refer to your front page item “Lentune Island” on 24th February. Aside from it seeming like a Lymington takeover of Hurst, regular visitors will be familiar with the feature as an above-high-water extension of the spit, previously dubbed Castle Point, and still clearly visible on Google Maps satellite images.

Mysteriously, once English Heritage’s contractors had completed the replenishment of the areas on the seaward side of the castle’s east wing with shingle, Castle Point had become an island, submerged at high tide.

Visitors since the departure of the contractors may also have noted the reduction in size of the stockpile of dressed granite blocks salvaged (and numbered) from the collapsed wall of the castle’s east wing in an earlier phase of work.

Dressed granite blocks were used to shore up the chevron timber groynes in front of the east wing before shingle replenishment.

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