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Closely-spaced large octagonal-shaped concrete blocks laid flat and sunk into ground: approx. 6ft long by 4ft-5ft wide.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/09)
Some 71 x anti-tank cubes running on two sides of a field to the E of the A229 road. [from map drawn by H. Seymour and J. Gerken].
(Source: Map 1975/07/22)
Two lines of anti-tank cubes plotted from air photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1950/05/30)
Anti-tank cubes (5ft high x 4ft broad - with chamfered tops) running on E side of road and then on field boundary at rigth angles to road. Some 75 blocks in total. No access - private land.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/12/12)


      

        Type of site
        CUBE
      

      

        Location
        On E side of A229 Hawkhurst - Hastings road, N of B2089 road, at Cripp's Corner.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Sedlescombe, Sussex, East, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TQ 7774 2133
            

            TQ 7760 2134
            

            TQ 7762 2123
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        O'Keeffe, Patrick
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Cripp's Corner fortress - Defences of the designated fortress of Cripp's Corner [Source: 45 Div. Defence Scheme, 1940 - PRO WO 166/536]. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (1) - site and plot plans (DIGITISED).

      

      

        Photographs
        
View of CUBE - S0001048
         

       		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Anti-tank blocks at Swaile's Green.

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0001048

      

      

        Reference
        
             1950/05/30 541/537 (fr.3032)

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, During 1995/09 

            Survey, On 1975/07/22 

            Field Visit, On 2003/12/12 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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