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This is a square shaped pillbox made from concrete blocks. It has a 4.5ins thick roof and is 76ins high with 6 embrasures measuring 16ins wide by 10ins high at widest point. It is fitted with a wooden door, but, as it is locked, there is no public access. It measures 99ins square over all. It is highly probable that this was one of a pair of pillboxes controlling a Fougasse defence on Porthcurno Beach. This flame defence system is known to have been sited on this beach, and there was a second pillbox (since demolished) sited on the E side of Porthcurno Beach opposite this one.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/09/25)
Square structure plotted from air photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1946/05/13)
Square pillbox with thin walls and roof. Five embrasures, and five steps down to doorway in N face. Overgrown. Very close to cliff edge. Access, including interior, with difficulty.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/01/20)
Small square structure plotted from 1:2500 OS sheet.
(Source: Map 1963)
Pillbox, built for its site. Heavily overgrown.
(Source: Field Visit 2001)

Type of site PILLBOX (VARIANT)
Location On W cliff side of Porthcurno Beach.
Area St. Levan, Cornwall, England
Grid reference SW 38652 22276 (Scale: 1:2500 , 1980)
Period WW2
Condition Good
Materials Concrete Block, Reinforced Concrete
Threats Type: Coastal erosion (Medium Term)
Detail: The pillbox is very close to the edge of a cliff, and further erosion will destroy it.
Type: Plant growth (Long Term)
Detail: The pillbox is very overgrown.
Recorder Harvey, Alwyn (Fortress Study Group)
Defence grouping Cornwall coast defences - Defences of the Cornwall coastal crust.
Photographs View of PILLBOX (VARIANT) - S0003271 View of PILLBOX (VARIANT) - S0003271
(3) - exterior views (2 attached to the form)
Adjacent sites 9 other pillboxes defending Porthcurno.
DOB site reference: S0003271
Original Reference 8690
Reference 1946/05/13 3G/TUD/UK/210 (fr.5072)
Event Field Visit, On 1996/09/25
Construction, In the period 1940 1941
Field Visit, During 2001
Field Visit, On 2003/01/20


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