Record Details

NHER Number:40318
Type of record:Monument
Name:World War Two tank trap

Summary

A World War Two tank trap set in a deep railway cutting. It consists of concrete blocks with sockets for upright iron bars.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 10781 41773
Map Sheet:TG14SW
Parish:WEYBOURNE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Formerly NHER 13584, context 7.
Tank trap in deep railway cutting revealed by undated excavations (by the North Norfolk Railway?). Concrete blocks set in ground below rails with sockets, some of the latter at the sides of the line still with upright iron bars.
E. Rose (NLA), 1982.

Said still to be extant.
D. Gurney (NLA), 2004.

Monument Types

  • TANK TRAP (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---*Verbal Communication: 2004. [unknown].

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38569Related to: Site of World War Two defensive structures (Monument)

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