09/05/1999 A large anti-tank block similar in appearance to an anti-tank cube. 5ft x 5ft x 5ft. Mounted on the top is a semi-circular ring of steel with two further rings on the side facing the road. May have been part of a road block, there is no matching evidence on the wall on the opposite side of the road, but the wall has only recently been rebuilt.
During the war the single lane bridge at the foot of the hill was, with the railway bridge (500yds down stream) , the only crossing of the River Wye between the Estuary and Tintern (about 8 miles N in a straight line and 12 by the river). The concrete block appears to be made up of a number of precast blocks and some bricks at the rear. (The site is on the Gloucestershire side of the River Wye).