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Rectangular Vickers machine gun emplacement. Only the embrasure in the front wall is operative, two others having been blocked, although at least one retains its table.
(Source: Field Visit 1992)
Type 28 anti-tank gun emplacement [sic]. [Recorder Urquhart gives NGR - TQ 915181].
(Source: Field Visit 2000/11/15)


      

        Type of site
        VICKERS MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT
      

      

        Location
        Alongside the Royal Military Canal and the A259 Rye-Winchelsea road..

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Rye, Sussex, East, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TQ 916 181
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Osborne, Mike (Defence of Britain Project)
      

      

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

 
 Rye nodal point - Defences of Rye Category 'A' nodal point. Cassini ref. R3538. [Source:  List of Nodal Points in Eastern Command, 1940 - PRO WO 199/544]. Also designated a 'fortress' [Source: 45 Div. Defence Scheme, 1940 - PRO WO 166/536]. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of VICKERS MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT - S0009769
         

     (5) - 4 exterior, 1 interior views (1 print, rest photocopies) (1 DIGITISED).  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0009769

      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, During 1992 

            Field Visit, On 2000/11/15 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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