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eDoB Online Map - INFANTRY POST: S0000325 (Extant)
Location: Immediately at the bottom of the embankment on the west side of the A12 Chelmsford by-pass.
Condition: Fair
Description: 01/1994 Low concrete triangular enclosure with 18ft long walls. Each wall is 12in thick and 22-26in high with 4in crenellations. The rear, west side has an entrance in its centre 6ft wide - the opposite point of the triangle facing east towards the expected line of attack. There is no concrete floor or base - the ground height in the interior is the same as the exterior. Partially blocking the entrance is a large oak tree which hangs over the structure. Immediately behind is a water filled ditch. A prepared rifle position for a platoon of infantry, it was built by the military during the summer of 1940. It was intended that infantry men could crawl along the ditch behind the structure, through the entrance, and up to a prone position behind the walls.
Original record text is copyright of the Council for British Archaeology.
Source: Defence of Britain Archive
Record details
EDOBID: e06921
Last Edited: 29/08/2013 14:46:35
Condition: Fair
Description: 01/1994 Low concrete triangular enclosure with 18ft long walls. Each wall is 12in thick and 22-26in high with 4in crenellations. The rear, west side has an entrance in its centre 6ft wide - the opposite point of the triangle facing east towards the expected line of attack. There is no concrete floor or base - the ground height in the interior is the same as the exterior. Partially blocking the entrance is a large oak tree which hangs over the structure. Immediately behind is a water filled ditch. A prepared rifle position for a platoon of infantry, it was built by the military during the summer of 1940. It was intended that infantry men could crawl along the ditch behind the structure, through the entrance, and up to a prone position behind the walls.
Original record text is copyright of the Council for British Archaeology.
Source: Defence of Britain Archive
Record details
EDOBID: e06921
Last Edited: 29/08/2013 14:46:35
AA Searchlight
Air Raid Shelter
Aircraft Dispersal Pen (Type A)
Aircraft Dispersal Pen (Type B)
Airfield
Airfield Battle Headquarters
Airfield Bombing Decoy
Anti-Aircraft Gun
Anti-Boat Landing Obstacle
Anti-Landing Trench
Anti-Tank Ditch
Anti-Tank Gun Position
Anti-Tank Island
Anti-Tank Obstacle
Anti-Tank Pillbox
Army Battle Headquarters
Army Headquarters
Auxiliary Unit Operational Base
Barbed Wire Entanglement
Beach Scaffolding
Blast Shelter
Coastal Battery
Command Post
Defended Building
Field Gun Emplacement
Flame Fougasse
Gun Emplacement
Gun Test Butts
Home Guard Headquarters
Infantry Post
Loopholed Wall
Machine Gun Post
Mines
Observation Post
Other
Radar
Rail Block
Road Block
Seagull Trench
Section Post
Spigot Mortar Emplacement
Weapon Pit