Defence of Britain Archive

Council for British Archaeology, 2002. (updated 2006) https://doi.org/10.5284/1000327. How to cite using this DOI

Digital Object Identifiers

Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) are persistent identifiers which can be used to consistently and accurately reference digital objects and/or content. The DOIs provide a way for the ADS resources to be cited in a similar fashion to traditional scholarly materials. More information on DOIs at the ADS can be found on our help page.

Citing this DOI

The updated Crossref DOI Display guidelines recommend that DOIs should be displayed in the following format:

https://doi.org/10.5284/1000327
Sample Citation for this DOI

Council for British Archaeology (2006) Defence of Britain Archive [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1000327

Data copyright © Council for British Archaeology unless otherwise stated

This work is licensed under the ADS Terms of Use and Access.
Creative Commons License


Council for British Archaeology logo

Primary contact

Council for British Archaeology
92 Micklegate
York
YO1 6JX
England
Tel: +44 (0)1904
Fax: 671417

Send e-mail enquiry

Resource identifiers

Digital Object Identifiers

Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) are persistent identifiers which can be used to consistently and accurately reference digital objects and/or content. The DOIs provide a way for the ADS resources to be cited in a similar fashion to traditional scholarly materials. More information on DOIs at the ADS can be found on our help page.

Citing this DOI

The updated Crossref DOI Display guidelines recommend that DOIs should be displayed in the following format:

https://doi.org/10.5284/1000327
Sample Citation for this DOI

Council for British Archaeology (2006) Defence of Britain Archive [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1000327

[Return to results list]

Type 28 anti-tank gun emplacement, facing W to cover road bridge over the River Arun.
(Source: Book 1996)
Type 28 pillbox, 6pdr., with loopholed screen wall to rear.
(Source: Article 1994)
Type 28 anti-tank gun emplacement; brick shuttered. One large embrasure facing SW.
(Source: Field Visit 1989/08/01)
Pillbox that was camouflaged as farm buildings, using painted canvas and with a pink tiled roof and tarred clapboard walls.
(Source: Map 1997)
Square pillbox, with attached open roofed porch, plotted from air photograph. Faces bridge (W).
(Source: Air Photograph 1947/04/10)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28)
      

      

        Location
        At Bucks Green, 200 yards E of Wanford Bridge, off Haven Road.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Rudgwick, Sussex, West, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TQ 0842 3270
             (Scale: 1:10000
              )
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        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). 

 
 Bucks Green defended village - Defences of the defended village of Bucks Green. [Source: North Susex Sub Area 'Plan to Defeat Invasion', 1942 - (NA):PRO WO 166/6780]. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (1) - plan.

      

      

        Photographs
        
     (6) - 3 exterior, 3 interior views (photocopies).  
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0007157

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            West Sussex SMR (ref: 6498)
        
      

      

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

             1994/06 Pillbox Typology Part 5: Gunhouses.

             1947/04/10 CPE/UK/1966 (fr.4221)

             1997 Bucks Green Defence Locality, 1940-1945

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, In the period 1992 1994

            Field Visit, On 1989/08/01 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

        ADS logo
    


    

        
			Data Org logo
        
    


    

        University of York logo
    


    

         
            alt=