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Circular pillbox with horizontal concrete shuttering, built in four sections. 4 embrasures, 2 of which on S and SW sides have been blocked with concrete. Flat concrete shuttering top. The 2 embrasures facing E and SE measure 2ft 7ins x 12ins at the outer edge, with a 9ins sill and inside 11ins lintel. Thickness of wall 1ft.
(Source: Field Visit 1997/07/10)
Circular concrete 'Armco' pillbox - faces NE (30 degrees). Concrete, with corrugated iron used as shuttering but removed. 2 embrasures (NE & E), the third filled with concrete during construction. In good condition but filled with earth and entrance blocked.
(Source: Field Visit 1989/08/25)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/25)
      

      

        Location
        Built into the shingle near the hard, on the N side of Peveril Point Road, Swanage (at the foot of Wellington Tower).

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Swanage, Dorset, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SZ 035 787
             (Scale: 1:63360
              )
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Concrete, 
            Corrugated Iron
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Wylie, A.E.
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Dorset coast defences - Defences of the Dorset coast line and immediate hinterland. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
     (2) - exterior views  
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Gun emplacements and look out posts at Peveril Point.

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0000129

      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1997/07/10 

            Field Visit, On 1989/08/25 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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