GC3M6K2 Fife Stop Line - East Anti-Tank Trench (Traditional Cache) in Northern Scotland, United Kingdom created by Kryten

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GC3M6K2 ▼

A cache by Kryten Message this owner

Hidden : 5/26/2012

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is one of a series based around the Fife Stop Line, a second world war ani-invasion defensive structure built in 1940/41,see cache GC11H67 for more details.

In 1941 the British government sent every available piece of earth moving equipment in Central Scotland to the Howe of Fife to dig an enormous pair of anti-tank trenches. The images below are a 1942 aerial photo of the Ladybank area and the modern map of the same area, to which the east trench route has been added in green.

The trenches were "V" shaped, approximately 30 feet deep and zig-zagged across the countryside for miles. This cache is placed at the point where the east trench intersected with the Ladybank-Pitlessie road although nothing now remains there to be seen on the ground, if you look north towards the railway you will see a hexagonal bunker.