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Non-standard design pillbox with the front section similar to a type 24, but with an outer courtyard to rear. This is identical to a pillbox at nearby Porthcurno, and probably built by the same builder. There are 5 straight-sided embrasures with the remains of steel shutters visible between the brick and granite walls. It is lined inside with bricks, and on the outside with granite blocks - 10ins of brick and 18ins outer granite thickness. Inner measurements of type 24 section - 9ft x 6ft. Courtyard 8ft x 9ft: walls 6.5ft high. Outer blast wall at entrance to courtyard section. The pillbox is completely encased in granite blocks.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/09/25)
Polygonal pillbox faced with local stone - faces NNW. Brick-shuttering inside. Entrance to well protected by wall blocked at one end. The inside of the roof shows impressions of corrugated iron.
(Source: Field Visit 1987/01)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (VARIANT)
      

      

        Location
        In field on side of road leading down into Sennen village.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Sennen, Cornwall, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SW 3578 2633
             (Scale: 1:25000
              , 1980)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Concrete, 
            Concrete Block, 
            Corrugated Iron, 
            Granite, 
            Steel
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Harvey, Alwyn (Fortress Study Group)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Cornwall coast defences - Defences of the Cornwall coastal crust. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
     (2) - exterior views (attached to form).  
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        4 other pillboxes at Sennen, of which 3 survive.

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0003290

      

      

        Original Reference
        8709
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1996/09/25 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, During 1987/01 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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