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- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1000327
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Anti-tank gun emplacement, with anti-tank blocks adjacent [see UORN 14287]. The emplacement is concrete-faced, with a roofed entry porch and two small rifle embrasures at the rear.
(Source: Field Visit 2002/06/14)
Anti-tank gun emplacement, underneath arches of viaduct. Small rifle embrasures, and large anti-tank gun embrasure (faces NE). Holdfast for 6pdr. gun. Graffiti inside. With covered porch. Access possible, exterior and interior.
(Source: Field Visit 2002/06/14)
Square structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1969)
| Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28) |
|---|---|
| Location | Beneath the railway viaduct, on its E edge, Wakes Colne. |
| Area |
Wakes Colne, Essex, England |
| Grid reference |
TL 89659 28410
(Scale: 1:2500
, 1969)
|
| Period | WW2 |
| Condition | Good |
| Materials | Reinforced Concrete |
| Recorder | Osborne, Mike (Defence of Britain Project) |
| Defence grouping |
Eastern Command: Corps and Command Stop Lines - One of three Eastern Command Corps stop lines, this one running from the River Colne in Essex via Wakes Colne and Bures, along the River Stour to Sudbury and Long Melford, and thence to Bury St. Edmunds and the River Lark at Mildenhall. Its final stretch (known now as the Command Line) was via Littleport along the line of the River Great Ouse to King's Lynn. |
| Photographs |
(8) - site, exterior and interior views (photocopies). |
| DOB site reference: | S0015696 |
| Event |
Field Visit, On 2002/06/14 Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, In the period 1995 1998 |
