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L-shaped concrete structure, part destroyed.
(Source: Field Visit 1994/09/13)
Angled section post which was the companion to the one still surviving [see UORN 2760]. It has now fallen to the tumbled cliff below where it lies in fragments [although the structure survives in part ex situ, it is considered 'destroyed'].
(Source: Field Visit 2003/04/30)
Angled structure plotted from air photograph. Faces E.
(Source: Air Photograph 1965/09/21)
Long angled structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1970)
| Type of site | SECTION POST |
|---|---|
| Location | At the edge above Killerby Cliff, Cayton Bay. |
| Area |
Cayton, Yorkshire, North, England |
| Grid reference |
TA 07308 84120
(Scale: 1:2500
)
|
| Period | WW2 |
| Condition | Removed |
| Materials | Reinforced Concrete |
| Threats |
Type: Coastal erosion (Immediate) Detail: Coast erosion has caused structure to fall onto cliff side below. |
| Recorder | Cracknell, P (Fortress Study Group (20th Century Defences of Yorkshire)) |
| Defence grouping |
North Yorkshire coast defences - Coastal crust and hinterland defences |
| Photographs |
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| DOB site reference: | S0002762 |
| Original Reference | 8119 |
| Reference |
1965/09/21 MAL/65081 (fr.118) 1941/03/13 MSO 31039 (fr.3724) |
| Event |
Field Visit, On 1994/09/13 Construction, In the period 1941/03 Destruction, In the period 1995 2002 Field Visit, On 2003/04/29 |
