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6 x concrete sockets that would have taken vertical steel rails as part of a roadblock. [Recorder terms these 'hedgehog insets'].
(Source: Field Visit )
These sockets not identified during field work.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/12/17)
Type of site | ANTI TANK VERTICAL RAIL |
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Location | By towpath of River Medway. |
Area |
Maidstone, Kent, England |
Grid reference |
TQ 754 569
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Unknown |
Materials | Concrete |
Recorder | Webb, A. |
Defence grouping |
GHQ Line (North West Kent) - GHQ Line running from Leigh to River Thames via Medway valley. Maidstone nodal point - Defences of Maidstone Category 'A' nodal point. Cassini ref. R1974. [Source: List of Nodal Points in Eastern Command, 1940 - PRO WO 199/544]. |
DOB site reference: | S0011444 |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 2003/12/17 |