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At the bottom of the 9ft deep bricked entry shaft to the OB were two 30-gallon water tanks. Storage space for two weeks' stock of tinned rations, cooking and lighting provision, explosives, fuses and detonators, booby-trap devices, incendiary and time-delay pencils, together with ammunition for rifles, revolvers, Sten and Tommy guns filled the OB. The base comprised a floor area 19ft long by 9ft wide with offset entrances. There were barrack-type beds-cum-seats for eight men on either side of a central table. Glazed ventilation pipes ran out to clusters of hazel which concealed them. There was as well a 33ins diameter concrete drainage pipe which acted as a waste outlet, and also as a 25ft long escape route to a lower level of the wood; this camouflaged exit could only be opened from inside.
(Source: Article 1996)
Auxiliary Unit base of the Ditchling Patrol, consisting of buried nissen hut.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/08)
| Type of site | AUXILIARY UNIT OPERATIONAL BASE |
|---|---|
| Location | Half a mile into West Wood, beside One Hundred Acre Lane, Wivelsfield, S of Haywards Heath. |
| Area |
Wivelsfield, Sussex, East, England |
| Grid reference |
TQ 345 193
|
| Period | WW2 |
| Condition | Very Bad |
| Materials | Clay Brick, Clay Pipe, Concrete, Corrugated Iron |
| Recorder | Longstaff-Tyrrell, Peter |
| Photographs | (1) - slide |
| DOB site reference: | S0006751 |
| Reference |
1996/12 Sussex Auxiliary Units |
| Event |
Field Visit, During 1995/08 Construction, In the period 1940 1941 |
