Contemporary records state, "Road Barrier. Dickroft Hill, Aldham. Map ref. 367452" (Mil. Ed.). This map reference is where the anti-tank ditch (SMR 10976/MCC5115) crossed what is now known as New Road. An aerial photograph taken in 1946 shows the clear marks of the filled-in anti-tank ditch on each side of the road and several small white dots on the S side. These are now known to have been anti-tank pimples as one of them still survives. It is in the roadside hedge and is of the pyramid type of pimple 2’ high, four sided, approx. 3’ across at its base.<1><2>

SITE ASSESSMENT: Although once very common, anti-tank pimples are now rare in Essex. All of the surviving examples so far recorded have been of the conical variety. This is the first of the pyramid type to be recorded.

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