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2 concrete cube shaped anti-tank defences, each cube measuring about 4ft x 3ft x 3ft. These have been moved to the beach where they are much eroded by the sea. This is at a point where the US Rangers were training for attack on D-Day. [Recorder includes photograph showing US Rangers by the concrete obstacles in 1944].
(Source: Field Visit 1998)


      

        Type of site
        CUBE
      

      

        Location
        Gully leading from beach to E of Wrangle Point, Bude

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Bude Stratton, Cornwall, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SS 2014 0725
             (Scale: 1:25000
              , 1983)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Very Bad

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Coastal erosion (Immediate) 
Detail: Already virtually destroyed by action of the sea.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Harvey, Alwyn (Fortress Study Group)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Cornwall coast defences - Defences of the Cornwall coastal crust. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (6) - further information (on US Rangers) and  photographs.

      

      

        Photographs
        
     (3) - attached to sheets.  
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0000159

      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, During 1998 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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