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Diver Gun Strip Site SC17

This gun site has confused me for a while, mostly because I had not read the AA Brigade War Diary properly! I knew that a Diver (term used to refer to the V1 fly bomb) gun site was in the locality and  finding four depressions laid out as specified by AA Command for a four gun 3.7" site I thought I had found it. Except that the layout was the 'wrong way round', i.e assuming a primary bearing of 45 degress, the the two outer guns are behind the two inner guns. Reading the War Diary again, however this was not a HAA site but an Intermediate Site Type C,  i.e. 4 X 40mm guns (static) . If these remains are indeed of this site, then this provides very valuable evidence: The layout of such sites was 'bow shaped' (there is no description of the layout of such Intermediate Sites in any War Diary I've seen so far). The guns would appear to have been mounted on Pile Platforms, and not the usual wooden cruciform platform for static 40mm guns. Above image sh...