Trow Point, tank traps

HER Number

11721

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Trow Point, tank traps

Place

Trow Point

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

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.

Easting

438100

Northing

566700

Grid Reference

NZ438100566700

Sources

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