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Assumed to be a type 22 pillbox, situated on S side of Limekiln Hill with field of fire S to beach. Brick-shuttered. with PLAN drawn on form.
(Source: Field Visit 1998/05/26)
Standard type 22 brick-walled pillbox, with walls 19ins thick and approx. 7ft 6ins long. Reinforced concrete roof. Trunk of elder bush is growing through large hole in roof. The roof is split and corners broken, with brickwork exposed, but stable.
(Source: Field Visit 1997/05/30)

Type of site PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)
Location Labour In Vain Farm, Limekiln Hill, West Bexington.
Area Puncknowle, Dorset, England
Grid reference SY 5371 8632 (Scale: 1:50000 , 1982)
Period WW2
Condition Bad
Materials Clay Brick, Reinforced Concrete
Threats Type: Deterioration (Immediate)
Detail: The pillbox is badly damaged and is subject to constant deterioration through weather and plant action.
Recorder Farthing, Geoff (Pillbox Study Group)
Defence grouping Dorset coast defences - Defences of the Dorset coast line and immediate hinterland.
Photographs View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) - S0006494
(4) - site and exterior views (1 DIGITISED).
Adjacent sites Pillboxes at SY 536864 and SY 542859.
DOB site reference: S0006494
Reference 1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences
Event Construction, In the period 1940 1941
Field Visit, On 1998/05/26
Field Visit, On 1997/05/30


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