Tyne and Wear HER(11721): Trow Point, tank traps - Details
11721
S Tyneside
Trow Point, tank traps
Trow Point
NZ36NE
Defence
Defence Obstruction
Tank Trap
Modern
C20
Destroyed Monument
A line of Second World War tank traps seen on vertical air photographs from 1948. The anti-tank cubes block off the exit from the beach just north of Trow Point. Some blocks had been removed by 1948 and the remaining ones by the 1980s.
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667
NZ381667
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1400943; Aerial Photograph RAF 58/B/32 5315 16-MAY-1948; RAF FNO/98 1104 16-AUG-1942; Archaeological Research Services, 2010, Phase 2 North East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment, Project Record Number 118