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The gun emplacement is built in the style of a barn. The walls are 45cm thick, with above the walls a pitched roof in corrugated asbestos sheeting. The building has an internal width of 5.25m by 4.5m length. On the south side an embrasure of 2.5m x 2.1m forms the gun position suitable for a field piece. The external walls are cantered back on either side of the embrasure but the pitched roof extends to the square, supported on concrete corner posts.
There is a rear access door on the north side which has a substantial blast wall.
There is a substantial ceiling constructed out of railway sleepers suspended by steel brackets.
Evidence of earthen embankments covering the side of the structure survive.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/10)
Type of site | GUN EMPLACEMENT |
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Location | Adjacent to road running south from Ellastone Village to bridge over River Dove. |
Area |
Ellastone, Staffordshire, England |
Grid reference |
SK 120 425
(Scale: 1:25000
, 1985)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Good |
Materials | Asbestos, Concrete, Iron |
Recorder | Mein, Henry J. |
Defence grouping |
Western Command Stop Line No 5 - Tamworth to Burton-on-Trent and thence by River Dove to Ashbourne |
Attached Sheets | (6) - One sheet of additional notes, two with photographs and location map, two of lists of other sites in area and one of plans (part DIGITISED). |
Photographs |
(2) - external views (DIGITISED). |
DOB site reference: | S0000137 |
Reference |
1994/06 Pillbox Typology Part 5: Gunhouses. |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1996/10 Field Visit, On 1997/06 |