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Two large anti-tank cylinders, about 4ft wide and 4ft high. They are formed from concrete pipes with domed tops.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/12/25)
2 x anti-tank cylinders, constructed from large diameter concrete pipes filled with concrete with concrete dome on top. [with sketch drawn on form].
(Source: Field Visit 2000/08/27)


      

        Type of site
        CYLINDER
      

      

        Location
        On canal towpath (S bank), on W side of B3101 road bridge (Marsh Lane Bridge), Devizes.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Devizes, Wiltshire, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            ST 977 614
             (Scale: 1:50000
              , 1993)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Plant growth (Long Term) 
Detail: One of the cylinders is partly overgrown.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Burden, Susannah
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 GHQ Line: Blue - Section of GHQ Stop Line running from near Melksham to Reading. 

 
 Devizes nodal point - The defences of Devizes on the GHQ Blue Line. The defences were developed as a nodal point because Devizes was considered an important centre of regional road communications (July 1940). During 1941 it was reclassified as a Category B anti-tank island. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of CYLINDER - S0008656
         

     (2) - external views (1 DIGITISED)..  		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Type 22 pillbox to W (ST 949618) and type 28a to E (ST 985612).

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0008656

      

      

        Reference
        
             1999 Ironside's Line

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1995/12/25 

            Field Visit, On 2000/08/27 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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