Fife Stop Line - Markinch Anti Tank Wall Traditional Cache
Fife Stop Line - Markinch Anti Tank Wall
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This cache is one of a series based around the Fife Stop Line, a
second world war anti-invasion defensive structure built in
1940/41, see cache GC11H67 for more details.
Yet another large piece of archaeology I have driven past many
times and totally ignored. This large lump of concrete is an anti
tank wall designed to prevent tanks from descending onto the
railway line.
Also present at N56°11.985'N, W003°07.847 is one half of an anti
tank roadblock consisting of a huge cube with three vertical slots
cast into it's front face. The other half of the roadblock has been
caved away to allow traffic to pass by.
The missing half of the roadblock would have been a similary sized
cube with three small square sockets cast into it and I have
included a photograph of a similar block I came across in East
Lothian which will complete the picture of how the mechanism would
have worked.
The end of a steel girder was first inserted into the small square
socket and the other end then dropped into the vertical slots we
can see here. In this case there would have been three girders with
each at a slightly different height, thus creating a series of
steps designed to defeat the track mechanism of a tank. Some
smaller roadblocks had only two or even a single horizontal girder.
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