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Round pillbox faced with local stone. [One of a group of pillboxes around Holyhead known as 'Welsh mini-castles'].
(Source: Field Visit 1997/06/17)
Brick shuttered pillbox still containing brackets for rifle shelf. Embrasures just above ground level, one embrasure angled to fire into valley (NE).
(Source: Field Visit 1998/04/03)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (VARIANT)
      

      

        Location
        On high hill to E of a needle monument, Holyhead.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Holyhead, Anglesey, Isle of, Wales

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SH 250 822
             (Scale: 1:50000
              , 1994)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Cement, 
            Concrete, 
            Stone
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Burden, Susannah
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Holyhead defences - Perimeter defences of the port of Holyhead, Anglesey 

 
 Isle of Anglesey defences - Defences of Anglesey, North Wales. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (VARIANT) - S0008121
         

     (3) - external views (1 DIGITISED)  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0008121

      

      

        Reference
        
             1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1999/06/11 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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