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Pillbox type 24 modified. Reference N2. Walls 42ins-43ins thick, and roof 8ins-11ins.
(Source: Article 1995)
Type 24 pillbox. Faces N. The W slopes of Pawlett Hill lie to its E. Heavily overgrown. No access - over dyke at edge of field.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/01/15)
Hexagonal structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet. Faces N.
(Source: Map 1969)
Bren gun emplacement. N.2.
(Source: Document 1940)
Pillbox structure plotted from air photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1947/01/16)
Hexagonal pillbox (N.2) camouflaged with willows and cullacopts.
(Source: Document 1940)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)
      

      

        Location
        On W side of Ham Lane, Pawlett.


      

      

        Area
        
 
 Pawlett, Somerset, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            ST 28330 43005
             (Scale: 1:2500
              , 1969)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete, 
            Wood
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Plant growth (Long Term) 
Detail: Pillbox is so overgrown it is inaccessible.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Foot, William (English Heritage Defence Areas Project)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Southern Command: Taunton Stop Line - Stop line running N - S through Somerset and South Devon - from Highbridge to Seaton via Taunton. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) - S0003343
         

       		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0003343

      

      

        Reference
        
             1997 The Taunton Stop Line: Component Listing

             1995/06 The Pawlett Strongpoint

             1940 Taunton Stop Line: record map folios of Major F.B. Goodman R.E., D.C.R.E. Taunton

             1947/01/16 CPE/UK/1924 (fr.2009-2010)

             1940 [copies of Royal Engineers drawings of camouflaged emplacements on the Taunton Stop Line]

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 2003/01/15 

            Construction, In the period 1940/09 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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