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Pillbox type 24 modified. Reference N3. Walls 42ins-43ins thick, and roof 8ins-11ins. Two steps down to entrance. There is a half-inch diameter hole through the wall 11ins from the door, possibly for a field telephone wire, and a 4ins square shaft through the roof [perhaps to receive the pintle of an externally mounted AA gun].
(Source: Article 1995)
Type 24 pillbox at edge of field by drain. Faces NNW.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/01/15)
Type 24 pillbox facing NNW across Pawlett Hams.
(Source: Field Visit 1997/08/29)
Hexagonal structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet. Faces WNW.
(Source: Map 1969)
Bren gun emplacement. N.3.
(Source: Document 1940)
Structure plotted from air photograph. The pillbox shape is hard to make out and it may retain its wartime camouflage.
(Source: Air Photograph 1947/01/16)
Type 24 pillbox (N.3) camouflaged as a shed. [This camouflage was still in place in 1947 as the pitched roof can be seen on APs].
(Source: Document 1940)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)
      

      

        Location
        On W side of Ham Lane, W of Pawlett.


      

      

        Area
        
 
 Pawlett, Somerset, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            ST 28432 43370
             (Scale: 1:2500
              , 1969)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete, 
            Wood
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Green, M.
      

      

        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) - S0003344
         

       		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0003344

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            Somerset SMR (ref: 11954)
        
      

      

        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)

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1997/08/29 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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