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This is an unusually shaped pillbox designed in a crescent shape. It has 4 embrasures on its longest side that faces the beach, one embrasure in the rear wall and one smaller embrasure in the short wall opposite the entrance. Roof is 11ins thick with 78ins headroom inside pillbox. Entrance protected by a detached outer blast wall with an embrasure. Blast wall 19ins thick, 60ins high and 56ins wide. It is 98ins wide inside with 4 inner steps at entrance. Front wall is 24ins thick. There are two very similar shaped pillboxes defending Sennen Cove Beach a few miles from Porthcurno on the North Cornwall coast. These pillboxes were also defending a Cable HQ.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/09/25)
Curving rectangular structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1963)
Very fine curving pillbox structure made of concrete blocks. Four square embrasures in wall facing beach (E) and two more in S wall. Loopholed detached blast wall. Three steps down to entrance (N end). An important structure in very good condition. Access possible to interior. Very close to edge of cliff.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/01/20)

Type of site PILLBOX (VARIANT)
Location Sited on W cliff side of Porthcurno Beach.
Area St. Levan, Cornwall, England
Grid reference SW 38638 22295 (Scale: 1:2500 , 1963)
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.
Recorder Harvey, Alwyn (Fortress Study Group)
Defence grouping Cornwall coast defences - Defences of the Cornwall coastal crust.
Attached Sheets (2) - sheets with photos attached.
Photographs View of PILLBOX (VARIANT) - S0003272 View of PILLBOX (VARIANT) - S0003272 View of PILLBOX (VARIANT) - S0003272

(5) - 3 exterior, 2 interior.
Adjacent sites 9 other pillboxes defending Porthcurno.
DOB site reference: S0003272
Original Reference 8691
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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