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Pillbox, no specification.
(Source: Field Visit 1994/09/13)
Medium machine gun pillbox of local type, with two MG embrasures with exterior concrete blocks beneath them. Entrances on S and N sides (latter was blocked up, but now open). Structure cracked.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/04/30)
Irregular shaped structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1968)
Vickers machine gun emplacement at Beach Cafe, Cayton. Cassini ref. 541046.
(Source: Document 1941/05/31)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (VARIANT)
      

      

        Location
        At head of beach at Johnny Flinton's Harbour, Cayton Bay.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Osgodby, Yorkshire, North, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TA 06321 85122
             (Scale: 1:2500
              )
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Cracknell, P (Fortress Study Group (20th Century Defences of Yorkshire))
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 North Yorkshire coast defences - Coastal crust and hinterland defences 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (VARIANT) - S0002755
         

       		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0002755

      

      

        Original Reference
        8112
      

      

        Reference
        
             1941/05/31 Operation Instruction No.4

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1994/09/13 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1994/09/13 

            Field Visit, During 2001 

            Field Visit, On 2003/04/30 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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