WW2 Pierced Steel Planking (Pevensey Bay) Multi-Cache
WW2 Pierced Steel Planking (Pevensey Bay)
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The cache is a 35mm film pot located at ground level. Sorry, the cache is located a short distance from the road, across shingle, so it is not accessible to wheelchair cachers.
There is parking for several cars close to the published co-ordinates, which are for several interlocked sections of WW2 pierced steel planking.
Pierced Steel Planking:
Pierced Steel Planking (PSP) consists of steel strips with holes punched through it in rows and a formation of U-shaped channels between the holes. Hooks were formed along one long edge and slots along the other long edge so that they could be connected to each other. The short edges were straight cut with no holes or hooks. The mats were laid in a staggered pattern to achieve lengthwise interlocking.
The hooks were usually held in the slots by a steel clip that filled the part of the slot that is empty when the adjacent sheets are properly engaged. The holes were bent up at their edges so that the bevelled edge stiffened the area around the hole. In some mats a T-shaped stake could be driven through the holes at intervals to keep the assembly in place on the ground. Sometimes the sheets were welded together.
A typical piece of PSP weighed about 66 pounds and was 10 ft long by 15 inches wide. The hole pattern for the sheet was three holes wide by 29 holes long resulting in 87 holes per mat.
Finding the cache:
To find the cache you need to:
- go to the published co-ordinates (and, if you want to, have a good gawp at the PSP);
- look at the back of the garage to the west of the PSP;
- - it looks like Storm Dennis blew it down. See below;
- count the number of rows of blocks (let that number equal R); R = 9
- count the maximum number of whole blocks in a single row (let that number equal B); B = 5
- the cache is located at:
- - N 50° 49. [R / 3] [R - B] [B - 1]
- - E 000° 22.[R] [B - 5] [B - 3]
The final location is another WW2 feature(s), of which there are several along this stretch of beach.
Lots of information on pillboxes and other WW2 defences may be found here: http://www.pillbox.org.uk/
Additional Hints
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