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Anti Tank Block

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09/11/1997 Anti-tank blocks and anti-tank wall running E - W across Cuckmere Valley. 17 blocks and anti-tank wall. with PLAN drawn on form. 1942 APs (German and British) show a double line of anti-tank blocks running to the E of the Cable House towards the shore. 28/06/2001 Line of massive anti-tank cubes (corrugated-iron shuttered) on concrete base.

There are 18 x blocks, the end two of which turn at right angles to head towards the sea. Each block is 6ft-7ft long and 4ft-5ft high from its concrete base. Towards the E, the line is continued by a solid anti-tank wall (see UORN 8610) , which itself was continued at a sharp angle to the edge of the river by further blocks (and two blockhouses - see UORNs 13678 and 13709) now destroyed.

(See also UORN 14830). 1940 Line of anti-tank cubes, making angle as it approaches the river (seen on wartime and post war APs - 16 cubes can be counted at the W end of the line). Most had disappeared by 1977.

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Type ANTI TANK BLOCK
Status Extant
Condition Good
Source Defence of Britain Archive
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