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Pillbox, originally comprising two compartments: the main space five-sided with front walls splayed., 4.64m long and tapered from 0.92m to 1.35m wide and 2.14m high. The front and end walls are 1.05m thick with two wide embrasures to the front and narrow ones to the two ends, and the rear walls 340mm thick. At the rear is another chamber 1.22m x 4.03m and 1.42m high. A later extension at the rear is 1.6m x 4.03m and 1.77m high with walls 380mm thick, and with 4 small embrasures with a weapon table inside and a blast wall across the entrance, also with an embrasure. The walls are generally 290mm thick. The materials are concrete cast between brick walls laid as shuttering, 112mm thick to the 1.05m walls and to the extension laid-on-edge 75mm thick to the rest.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/06/22)
Pillbox, facing N covering the open flat land to the N of North Bersted and Bognor Regis. Unique design; partially buried. Has three separate compartments.
(Source: Book 1996)


      

        Type of site
        VICKERS MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT
      

      

        Location
        At North Bersted, 100 yards from the N end of Berry Lane, nr. Bognor Regis.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Bersted, Sussex, West, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SU 923 015
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Martin, R.G. (Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Sussex coast defences - Defences of the East and West Sussex coastlines, and their immediate hinterland. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (1) - sections and elevations.

      

      

        Photographs
        
     (5) - 2 interior, 3 exterior views (photocopies).  
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0006756

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            West Sussex SMR (ref: 6455)
        
      

      

        Reference
        
             1996 Frontline Sussex: The Defence Lines of West Sussex 1939-1945.

             1996/09 North Bersted Pillbox

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1996/06/22 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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