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Emplacement for housing medium machine gun, with blast wall. Massive main embrasure, external dimensions 5ft x 2ft 2ins.
(Source: Field Visit 1997/08/29)
Square emplacement (N.V.3) with detached external blast wall. Camouflaged as straw and haystacks.
(Source: Document 1940)
Vickers emplacement in hedgerow forward (N) of line of road. Doorway and detached blast wall at W end. Totally overgrown.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/01/15)
Square structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1969)
Vickers emplacement. N.V.3. Cassini ref. 728644.
(Source: Document 1940)
Type of site | VICKERS MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT |
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Location | Libbers Field, on summit of Pawlett Hill, facing N, N of Bridgwater. |
Area |
Pawlett, Somerset, England |
Grid reference |
ST 28824 43105
(Scale: 1:2500
, 1969)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Fair |
Materials | Reinforced Concrete |
Threats |
Type: Plant growth (Long Term) Detail: The emplacement is totally overgrown. |
Recorder | Thomson, L.E.J. |
Defence grouping |
Southern Command: Taunton Stop Line - Stop line running N - S through Somerset and South Devon - from Highbridge to Seaton via Taunton. |
Adjacent sites | Vickers pillbox at ST 289431; type 24 pillboxes at ST 289433 and ST 290431. |
DOB site reference: | S0000289 |
Reference |
1995/06 The Pawlett Strongpoint 1940 Taunton Stop Line: record map folios of Major F.B. Goodman R.E., D.C.R.E. Taunton 1940 [copies of Royal Engineers drawings of camouflaged emplacements on the Taunton Stop Line] 1940/10/30 Home Defence Progress Report: Taunton Line |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1997/08/29 Field Visit, On 2003/01/15 |