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Two anti-tank cylinders lying on their sides.
(Source: Field Visit 2000/04/06)
2 x 5ft diameter anti-tank cylinders lying on their sides on canal bank. Made from concrete drainage pipes filled with concrete. Overgrown.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/02/04)
2 x anti-tank blocks plotted from air photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1945/06/13)


      

        Type of site
        CYLINDER
      

      

        Location
        On S bank of Kennet and Avon Canal, about 150yds W of bridge number 158, Newton Swing Bridge, Semington.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Semington, Wiltshire, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            ST 90606 60866
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Plant growth (Long Term) 
Detail: The cylinders are partly overgrown.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Cole, Chris
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 GHQ Line: Blue - Section of GHQ Stop Line running from near Melksham to Reading. 

 
 Semington centre of resistance - The defences of Semington on the GHQ Blue Line. After 1940 the defences were developed as a Centre of Resistance (Nodal Point) manned by the 4th Bn. Wiltshire Home Guard. (South Wiltshire Sub Area, 1942 - PRO WO 166/6785). 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
     (1) - general view (slide)  
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0011721

      

      

        Reference
        
              106G/UK/377 (fr.3159)

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 2000/04/06 

            Field Visit, On 2003/02/04 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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