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Surface infantry shelter, with brick walls, concrete roof and wooden door.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/03/04)
Type of site | HOME GUARD SHELTER |
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Location | In field just N of River Black Bourn, Ixworth. On farmland. |
Area |
Ixworth, Suffolk, England |
Grid reference |
TL 933 701
(Scale: 1:50000
)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Removed |
Materials | Clay Brick, Concrete, Wood |
Recorder | Purcell, Simon (Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey) |
Defence grouping |
Eastern Command: River Orwell - River Gt. Ouse Stop Line - Eastern Command line running from mouth of the River Orwell, via Ipswich, the River Gipping, Haughley, Tostock and the Little Ouse to Euston. Then via the Little Ouse to the Great Ouse. Ixworth nodal point - Defences of Ixworth category 'B' nodal point in No.4 region. Cassini ref.M3889. [Source: List of Nodal Points in Eastern Command, 1940 - PRO WO 199/544]. |
Adjacent sites | Type 22 pillbox (SGP/SK/17) at TL 940703; Anti-tank cylinders (SGP/SK/18 and 21) at TL 928706 and TL 932702; Spigot mortar pits (SGP/SK/19 and 20) at TL 931704 and TL 931702. |
DOB site reference: | S0006464 |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1995/03/04 Destruction, Before 1995 |