Herd Sand, tank traps

HER Number

11713

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Herd Sand, tank traps

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Defence

Site Type: Broad

Defence Obstruction

Site Type: Specific

Tank Trap

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Second World War 1939 to 1945

Form of Evidence

Destroyed Monument

Description

Two lines of Second World War tank traps seen on vertical air photographs from 1948. The anti-tank cubes block off the exit from the Herd Sand beach. The blocks have since been removed.

Easting

436700

Northing

568100

Grid Reference

NZ436700568100

Sources

English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1399289; Aerial Photograph RAF 58/B/32/PART/I 5421 16-MAY-1948