Baker's Island

{{Short description|Island in Langstone Harbour, Hampshire, England}}

{{for|the island in Massachusetts|Bakers Island}}

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Baker's Island is an island in Langstone Harbour, Hampshire, England.{{cite web|url=http://www.havant.gov.uk/PDF/LCASection5Hayling29to34.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928025831/http://www.havant.gov.uk/PDF/LCASection5Hayling29to34.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 September 2011 |title=Havant Borough Townscape, Landscape and Seascape Character Assessment February 2007 |publisher=Havant Borough Council |accessdate=15 March 2011 |format=PDF }} It is {{convert|400|m|abbr=on}} long and up to {{convert|300|m|abbr=on}} wide but only rises to a little over {{convert|2|m|ft|abbr=on|0}} above Ordnance Datum. Mesolithic and Neolithic flintwork has been found on the island along with Bronze Age and Romano-British pottery. There are a number of structures on the island including the remains of a flint walled building and five {{Convert|5|by|1.5|m|abbr=on}} brick shelters believed to be part of a World War Two starfish decoy site.{{cite book |last1=Adam |first1=Neil J |last2=Momber |first2=Gary |editor1-first=Michael J |editor1-last= Allen |editor2-first=Julie |editor2-last=Gardiner |title=Our Changing Coast a survey of the intertidal archaeology of Langstone Harbour Hampshire |year=2000 |publisher=Council for British Archaeology |location=York |isbn=1-902771-14-1 |pages=100–104 |chapter=Baker's Island }} In 1978 the island along with the other islands in Langstone Harbour was acquired by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds who turned it into a bird sanctuary. Since that time unauthorised landings have been forbidden.{{cite book |title=A History of Langstone Harbour and its environs in the County of Hampshire |last=Tweed |first=Ronald |year=2000 |publisher=Dido Publications |isbn=0-9533312-1-0|pages=159–160 }}