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Anti-Tank Blocks an OverviewĪnti-tank blocks are specific obstacles used to obstruct and/or halt the movement of armoured vehicles, though they would also hinder the movement of non-armoured vehicles just as well.

This site type guide will highlight the most common types of anti-tank block and provide a methodology for their recording to archaeological standards. Today these blocks still survive in many coastal and inland areas, though their function and landscape context still remains to be adequately recorded, interpreted and analysed as an integral part of the defensive landscape of the anti-invasion defences of early 1940. Anti-tank defences were key to the stop line defensive strategy employed by General Edmund Ironside’s (Commander in Chief Home Forces from 25 May to 19 July 1940) and General Alan Brooke’s (Commander in Chief Home Forces 19 July 1940 to December 1941) nodal point focussed strategy.ĭeployed carefully, anti-tank blocks could impede and halt the movement of the tanks employed by the Wehrmacht during the invasion threat of 1940-42, leaving them vulnerable to attack from the flanks and holding up the push inland. Anti-tank defences were a key component of the anti-invasion defences constructed during the Second World War (World War Two), with anti-tank obstacles and road and rail blocks springing up across the UK between 19 to halt and hinder the advance of enemy armoured vehicles.

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