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Anti-tank blocks and anti-tank wall running E - W across Cuckmere Valley. 17 blocks and anti-tank wall.
with PLAN drawn on form.
(Source: Field Visit 1997/11/09)
Line of massive anti-tank cubes (corrugated-iron shuttered) on concrete base. There are 18 x blocks, the end two of which turn at right angles to head towards the sea. Each block is 6ft-7ft long and 4ft-5ft high from its concrete base. Towards the E, the line is continued by a solid anti-tank wall [see UORN 8610], which itself was continued at a sharp angle to the edge of the river by further blocks (and two blockhouses - see UORNs 13678 and 13709) now destroyed.
[See also UORN 14830].
(Source: Field Visit 2001/06/28)
Line of anti-tank cubes, making angle as it approaches the river [seen on wartime and post war APs - 16 cubes can be counted at the W end of the line]. Most had disappeared by 1977.
(Source: Air Photograph 1940)
APs (German and British) show a double line of anti-tank blocks running to the E of the Cable House towards the shore.
(Source: Air Photograph 1942)
| Type of site | CUBE |
|---|---|
| Location | W of Cuckmere Haven, nr. River Cuckmere and the Cable House. |
| Area |
Seaford, Sussex, East, England |
| Grid reference |
TV 51509 97774
TV 51467 97750 (Scale: 1:10000 , 1990) |
| Period | WW2 |
| Condition | Good |
| Materials | Concrete |
| Recorder | Farthing, Geoff (Pillbox Study Group) |
| Defence grouping |
Sussex coast defences - Defences of the East and West Sussex coastlines, and their immediate hinterland. Sussex coast defences (Cuckmere Haven) - Fortifications protecting the coastal valley of the River Cuckmere, East Sussex. |
| Photographs |
(1) - site view. |
| Adjacent sites | Non-standard pillbox to NW at TV 514978. |
| DOB site reference: | S0008609 |
| Reference |
1940/10/23 Taktisches Luftbildbuch Nr.3 |
| Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1997/11/09 Field Visit, On 2001/06/28 |
