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Pillbox type 25, elevated 20 ft up side of bank on the slipway road and protecting the anti-tank blocks. Constructed of conglomerate concrete using horizontally placed corrugated iron. 2 embrasures looking over road; third at rear has been blocked. Inside under the embrasures, and perfectly preserved, are 2 wooden shelves butted together and supported by 3 iron brackets. Dimensions:- entrance 26ins x 37ins with small lip; embrasures 23ins x 13ins inside, narrowing to 13ins x 10ins on outside; inside structure 79ins high, 6ft diameter; shelves 38ins x 8ins, positioned 8.5ins below embrasures; roof perfectly preserved corrugated iron under roof; walls 12ins thick. [Recorder gives NGR - SY 90957880].
(Source: Field Visit 1997/01/26)
Pillbox, amongst alum works, other multi-period industrial remains, and an associated group of jetties and breakwaters - and scheduled with them.
(Source: English Heritage schedule )


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/25)
      

      

        Location
        Kimmeridge slipway road, Kimmeridge Bay.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Steeple, Dorset, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SY 9085 7875
             (Scale: 1:10560
              ,  )
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Concrete, 
            Corrugated Iron
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type:  () 
Detail:  

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Matthews, Graham G. 
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Dorset coast defences - Defences of the Dorset coast line and immediate hinterland. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (1) - site location map.

      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/25) - S0003127
         

     (2) - 1 interior (DIGITISED), 1 exterior views (on form).  		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Kimmeridge Bay defences, in particular anti-tank blocks at same location.


      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0003127

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            Scheduled Monument (ref: 29096)
        
      

      

        Original Reference
        8535
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1997/01/26 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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