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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.


381


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

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