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Non-standard square shape pillbox, built into castle wall (faced with flint for camouflage) - 1 embrasure looking east. Corrugated iron shuttering of roof. Brick internal shuttering. Rubbish inside.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/04/05)
Square structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1964)
Machine gun emplacement, with long horizontal embrasure, built on top of Roman wall. Position marked with plaque inside Castle. No interior access.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/12/10)


      

        Official Name
        Pevensey Castle
      

      

        Type of site
        MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT
      

      

        Location
        E side of Roman walls of Pevensey Castle, S of Roman East Gate and tower.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Pevensey, Sussex, East, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TQ 64560 04845
             (Scale: 1:2500
              , 1964)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Corrugated Iron, 
            Flint, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Farthing, Geoff (Pillbox Study Group)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Pevensey nodal point - Defences of Pevensey Category 'A' nodal point. Cassini ref. R0723. [Source:  List of Nodal Points in Eastern Command, 1940 - PRO WO 199/544]. Also designated a 'fortress' [Source: 45 Div. Defence Scheme, 1940 - PRO WO 166/536]. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT - S0001510
View of MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT - S0001510
         

       		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        5 other non-standard pillboxes built into Pevensey Castle.

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0001510

      

      

        Original Reference
        6819
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1996/04/05 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 2003/12/10 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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