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There are 6 x pillboxes at this site, all of the same two storey type, built of concrete and red brick, with an unroofed upper storey. This was originally reached by an external ladder, now all removed. The floor plan is square with a side entrance porch. The embrasures are very long and thin, possibly 5ft x 6ins. Of the six pillboxes on the original site, five remain within the boundaries of the current industrial estate and the sixth is in a scrap yard next to the level crossing on the A3055, the best part of a mile away [possibly site UORN 6970].
(Source: Field Visit 2000/03/23)
Machine gun post at ST 202260 on the perimeter of the Army Supply Depot. The post has embrasures for ground defence and a platform above, presumably for low level air defence. Access to platform by iron ladder at rear. All posts in depot appear to have had telephones (see insulators).
(Source: Field Visit 2001)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (VARIANT)
      

      

        Location
        In former Army Supply Depot at Burnshill, about a quarter of a mile W of the junction of the A3055 and A358 roads, near Norton Fitzwarren.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Norton Fitzwarren, Somerset, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            ST 204 263
             (Scale: 1:50000
              , 1997)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Development (Immediate) 
Detail: The site manager said in March 2000 that the whole depot is due to be developed for housing, adding that one unnamed individual was trying to get one of the pillboxes saved.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Dennett, David
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Taunton anti-tank island - Defences of Taunton anti-tank island (also a category 'A' nodal point and a Vulnerable Defile). Cassini ref. T6645. [Source:  Western Area Defence Scheme, 1941 - PRO WO 166/1251]. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (VARIANT) - S0012450
View of PILLBOX (VARIANT) - S0012450
         

     (4) - exterior views (2 DIGITISED).  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0012450

      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, During 2000/03/23 

            Field Visit, During 2001 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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