Defence of Britain Archive
Council for British Archaeology, 2002. (updated 2006) https://doi.org/10.5284/1000327. How to cite using this DOI
Data copyright © Council for British Archaeology unless otherwise stated
This work is licensed under the ADS Terms of Use and Access.
Primary contact
Council for British Archaeology
92 Micklegate
York
YO1 6JX
England
Tel: +44 (0)1904
Fax: 671417
Resource identifiers
- ADS Collection: 324
- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1000327
- How to cite using this DOI
Anti-tank cubes and cylinders adjacent to anti-tank gun emplacement [see UORN 15696]. [with site plan].
(Source: Field Visit )
Line of anti-tank cubes (approx. 12).
(Source: Field Visit 2002/06/14)
Some 14 x anti-tank cubes and 3 x large cylinders in two distinct lines running from anti-tank gun emplacement to the S side of the road. The E line is at an angle to the other and consists itself for part of its length of a double line of cubes and cylinders. This runs from TL 8964028403 to TL 8968128432 [see UORN16086].
(Source: Field Visit 2002/06/14)
| Type of site | CUBE |
|---|---|
| Location | On the SE side of the crossing of the A1124 road and the railway viaduct. |
| Area |
Wakes Colne, Essex, England |
| Grid reference |
TL 89639 28405
(Scale: 1:2500
)
TL 89669 28448 (Scale: 1:2500 ) |
| Period | WW2 |
| Condition | Good |
| Materials | Concrete |
| Recorder | Foot, William (English Heritage Defence Areas Project) |
| Defence grouping |
Eastern Command: Corps and Command Stop Lines - One of three Eastern Command Corps stop lines, this one running from the River Colne in Essex via Wakes Colne and Bures, along the River Stour to Sudbury and Long Melford, and thence to Bury St. Edmunds and the River Lark at Mildenhall. Its final stretch (known now as the Command Line) was via Littleport along the line of the River Great Ouse to King's Lynn. |
| Photographs |
|
| DOB site reference: | S0016085 |
| Event |
Field Visit, On 2002/06/14 Construction, In the period 1940 1941 |
