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The pillbox has the same basic layout as a type 27, but with no open central well. There is an internal straight anti-ricochet wall at a right angle to the entrance. The entrance, which is built into the side of the embankment, is protected by an 'L'-shaped wall. The pillbox is constructed of reinforced concrete (with wood shuttering, but the entrance wall is made of concrete blocks. There is a large and deep crack running over the roof and down the two faces that follow the edge of the embankment.
(Source: Field Visit 1999/04/18)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (VARIANT)
      

      

        Location
        On the SW bank of Lydney Harbour/Canal. Built on the riverside edge of what was the railway embankment leading from Lydney Harbour to the main line to South Wales.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Lydney, Gloucestershire, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SO 644 012
             (Scale: 1:25000
              , 1986)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Concrete Block, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Subsidence (Medium Term) 
Detail: The pillbox is on the edge of an embankment, and subsidence is therefore a threat. The structure is already cracked.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Dennett, David
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Gloucestershire coast defences - Defences of the Severn estuary and the immediate Gloucestershire hinterland. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
     (1) - exterior view.  
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Other pillboxes on the W shore of the Severn estuary.

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0008359

      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1999/04/18 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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