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Type 24 variant. Brick shuttering. Rear access covered by "porch", and structure built on large concrete raft to prevent subsidence on soft land of the Somerset Levels. [All the pillboxes from Highbridge to Wells are constructed in this manner and are type 24s].
(Source: Field Visit 1998/12/17)
Hexagonal structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet. Faces SSW.
(Source: Map 1970)
Type 24 pillbox. Brick-shuttered. Some of the bricks are damaged. The entrance is on the N side, with a protective porch.
(Source: Field Visit 2001/08/04)
Type 24 brick-shuttered pillbox with covered entry porch.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/01/17)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)
      

      

        Location
        On N bank of River Brue, just to the E of River Bridge.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Burtle, Somerset, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            ST 38135 44601
             (Scale: 1:25000
              , 1998)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Thomson, L.E.J.
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 GHQ Line: Green  - Stop Line - Burnham on Sea to near Melksham (where it joins with the GHQ Line: Blue) and then north to the River Severn at Newnham. This line is also known as the Bristol Outer Line. 
Manned by VIII Corps. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (1) - plan and elevation.

      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) - S0005667
         

       		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Type 24 pillboxes to the W at ST 380447 (SLG0033) and the E at ST 38364466 (SLG00131).

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0005667

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            Somerset SMR (ref: 12340)
        
      

      

        Reference
        
             1999 Warwalks: Stop Line Green

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1998/12/17 

            Construction, In the period 1940/06 1940/08

            Field Visit, On 1998/12/17 

            Field Visit, On 2001/08/04 

            Field Visit, On 2003/01/17 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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