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Anti-tank cubes [plotted from aerial photograph].
(Source: Report 1992/07)
Two short parallel lines of anti-tank cubes running onto beach from steep-sided gully. Plotted from air photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1940/09/14)
Some 14 sea-washed anti-tank cubes, the remnants of the northerly of the two lines of blocks here. Of the south line, only one block appears to survive.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/04/28)
Type of site | CUBE |
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Location | At Atwick Gap on the sea front S of Atwick village. |
Area |
Atwick, Yorkshire, East Riding of, England |
Grid reference |
TA 20003 50110
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Period | WW2 |
Condition | Bad |
Materials | Concrete |
Recorder | Holderness Pilot Study (Fortress Study Group) |
Defence grouping |
East Riding of Yorkshire coast defences - Coastal crust defences |
Photographs |
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DOB site reference: | S0013211 |
Reference |
1940/09/14 MSO 31130 (fr.06634) 1941/03/24 613E/BR174 (fr.11) 1992/07 Final Report on the Holderness Pilot Study, Undertaken by the Fortress Study Group Database Group (FSGDG) between the 9th and 12th April 1992 |
Event |
Field Visit, On 2003/04/28 Construction, In the period 1940/09 |