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Rectangular Vickers machine gun emplacement. Only the embrasure in the front wall is operative, two others having been blocked, although at least one retains its table.
(Source: Field Visit 1992)
Type 28 anti-tank gun emplacement [sic].
[Recorder Urquhart gives NGR - TQ 915181].
(Source: Field Visit 2000/11/15)
Type of site | VICKERS MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT |
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Location | Alongside the Royal Military Canal and the A259 Rye-Winchelsea road.. |
Area |
Rye, Sussex, East, England |
Grid reference |
TQ 916 181
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Good |
Materials | Reinforced Concrete |
Recorder | Osborne, Mike (Defence of Britain Project) |
Defence grouping |
Sussex coast defences - Defences of the East and West Sussex coastlines, and their immediate hinterland. Rye nodal point - Defences of Rye Category 'A' nodal point. Cassini ref. R3538. [Source: List of Nodal Points in Eastern Command, 1940 - PRO WO 199/544]. Also designated a 'fortress' [Source: 45 Div. Defence Scheme, 1940 - PRO WO 166/536]. |
Photographs |
(5) - 4 exterior, 1 interior views (1 print, rest photocopies) (1 DIGITISED). |
DOB site reference: | S0009769 |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, During 1992 Field Visit, On 2000/11/15 |