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Anti-tank cylinders.
(Source: Book 1999)
2 x anti-tank cylinders, on S side of bridge. Constructed using large diameter concrete drainage pipes filled with concrete and domed at top.
[with sketch added to form].
(Source: Field Visit 2000/08/23)
Type of site | CYLINDER |
---|---|
Location | S of Kennet and Avon Canal, Brickham Bridge, Devizes |
Area |
Devizes, Wiltshire, England |
Grid reference |
SU 014 621
(Scale: 1:50000
, 1997)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Good |
Materials | Concrete |
Recorder | Farthing, Geoff (Pillbox Study Group) |
Defence grouping |
GHQ Line: Blue - Section of GHQ Stop Line running from near Melksham to Reading. Devizes nodal point - The defences of Devizes on the GHQ Blue Line. The defences were developed as a nodal point because Devizes was considered an important centre of regional road communications (July 1940). During 1941 it was reclassified as a Category B anti-tank island. |
Photographs |
(1) - site view (DIGITISED). |
Adjacent sites | Type 22 pillboxes to NE (SU 017622) and SW (SU 014618). |
DOB site reference: | S0008730 |
Reference |
1999 Ironside's Line |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 2000/08/23 |