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2 x loopholes built into garden wall of private house, one facing E, one S.
(Source: Book 1996)
2 x rectangular loopholes in wall measuring approx. 6ins x 12ins. One is set 4ft 6ins above the ground, the other 2ft to its right is almost at ground level on the road side (the ground is two feet lower behind the wall)
(Source: Field Visit 1999/07/26)
Two loopholes for rifle fire in garden wall commanding the A284 road S towards Littlehampton. The two loopholes are knocked through a 'traditional Sussex flint wall' and are framed in cement: they measure 38cm x 15cm. One is at ground level and the other at a metre and a half above ground level.
(Source: Field Visit 1999/01/27)


      

        Type of site
        LOOPHOLED WALL
      

      

        Location
        Flint wall in front of Old Lyminster House, at junction of the A284 Lyminster Road and Church Road, Lyminster.
[site location plan drawn on form].

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Lyminster, Sussex, West, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TQ 0252 0475
             (Scale: 1:50000
              , 1998)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Concrete, 
            Flint
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Osborne, Mike (Defence of Britain Project)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 South East Command: Stop Line (West Sussex) - [Possible] stop line running from the coast W of Littlehampton, and following the course of the River Arun, north via Arundel, Pulborough and Billingshurst (the line of Stane Street Roman road) to join the W - E GHQ Line). 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (1) - further site location plan.

      

      

        Photographs
        
View of LOOPHOLED WALL - S0008008
         

     (6) - site views (prints and photocopies - 1 DIGITISED).  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0008008

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            West Sussex SMR (ref: 6472)
        
      

      

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

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, In the period 1995 1998

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1999/07/26 

            Field Visit, On 1999/01/27 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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