Defence of Britain Archive

Council for British Archaeology, 2002. (updated 2006) https://doi.org/10.5284/1000327. How to cite using this DOI

Digital Object Identifiers

Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) are persistent identifiers which can be used to consistently and accurately reference digital objects and/or content. The DOIs provide a way for the ADS resources to be cited in a similar fashion to traditional scholarly materials. More information on DOIs at the ADS can be found on our help page.

Citing this DOI

The updated Crossref DOI Display guidelines recommend that DOIs should be displayed in the following format:

https://doi.org/10.5284/1000327
Sample Citation for this DOI

Council for British Archaeology (2006) Defence of Britain Archive [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1000327

Data copyright © Council for British Archaeology unless otherwise stated

This work is licensed under the ADS Terms of Use and Access.
Creative Commons License


Council for British Archaeology logo

Primary contact

Council for British Archaeology
92 Micklegate
York
YO1 6JX
England
Tel: +44 (0)1904
Fax: 671417

Send e-mail enquiry

Resource identifiers

Digital Object Identifiers

Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) are persistent identifiers which can be used to consistently and accurately reference digital objects and/or content. The DOIs provide a way for the ADS resources to be cited in a similar fashion to traditional scholarly materials. More information on DOIs at the ADS can be found on our help page.

Citing this DOI

The updated Crossref DOI Display guidelines recommend that DOIs should be displayed in the following format:

https://doi.org/10.5284/1000327
Sample Citation for this DOI

Council for British Archaeology (2006) Defence of Britain Archive [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1000327

[Return to results list]

This seawall was commenced in 1936 and modified in 1940-41 as a partial anti-tank wall. It is several miles in extent. The wall, as originally built, was a clay/chalk/flint bund 18ft wide at its base and 3ft wide at its top, but was altered to form a much steeper (vertical in some sections) reinforced concrete anti-tank wall. During the course of WW2, storms breached or undermined the wall in three places and it was mended by the insertion of 'Blockcrete' blocks. For a quarter of its total length the 1940-41 wall is extant and in good condition.
(Source: Field Visit 1998/04)


      

        Type of site
        ANTI TANK WALL
      

      

        Location
        Thorney Island.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 West Thorney, Sussex, West, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SU 7655 0316
            

            SU 7688 0098
            

            SU 7510 0460
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Cobb, Peter D. (UK Fortifications Club)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Sussex coast defences - Defences of the East and West Sussex coastlines, and their immediate hinterland. 

        		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0012319

      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, During 1998/04 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

        ADS logo
    


    

        
			Data Org logo
        
    


    

        University of York logo
    


    

         
            alt=