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Brick gun position referred to in document.
(Source: Document 1946/07)
Possible pillbox attached to pre-existing wall plotted from air photograph. It had been removed by April 1950.
(Source: Air Photograph 1946/09/10)
Type of site | PILLBOX |
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Location | Beyond E wall of medieval castle. |
Area |
Pevensey, Sussex, East, England |
Grid reference |
TQ 6458 0476
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Removed |
Materials | Clay Brick, Concrete |
Recorder | |
Defence grouping |
Sussex coast defences - Defences of the East and West Sussex coastlines, and their immediate hinterland. 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]. |
DOB site reference: | S0016839 |
Reference |
1940/07/12 Pevensey Castle: Maintenance and Minor Works, 1940-1958 1946/09/10 106G/UK/1725 (fr.4040) |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 |