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Pillbox built into cliff, covers beach with large embrasure. Side entrance with protective porch. Internal roof shuttered with corrugated iron.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/09/92)
Vickers Machine gun emplacement, dug into slope - facing west. Marking reads - `BSAC 297'
(Source: Field Visit )
Pillbox. Shown on map of post-war coastal defence survey.
(Source: Document 1950)
Brick-shuttered square pillbox, with large W-facing embrasure [for medium machine gun?]. Entrance porch. Doorway blocked up. Dug into edge of cliff, which has eroded since 1940 leaving structure perilously placed. By footpath.
(Source: Field Visit 2002/06/27)
Machine gun task. Fixed line along foreshore W. Cassini ref. 573619.
(Source: Document 1940/09/12)
Documentary reference to pillbox at Cassini ref. 573618 may be to this site.
(Source: Document 1940/11/15)


      

        Type of site
        VICKERS MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT
      

      

        Location
        On E cliffs, Weybourne Hope.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Weybourne, Norfolk, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TG 11183 43682
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Foot, William (English Heritage Defence Areas Project)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Norfolk coast defences - Coastal crust defences 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        Additional SRF by Geoff Farthing.

      

      

        Photographs
        
View of VICKERS MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT - S0001068
         

     (2) - external views  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0001068

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            Norfolk SMR (ref: 19438)
        
      

      

        Reference
        
             1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences

             1995 Norfolks Fixed Defences in the Two World Wars

             1950 Survey of Coastal Defence Works (1947-1950)

             1940/09/12 5th Royal Norfolk Regiment Defence Scheme

             1940/11/14 8th Bn The Lincolnshire Regiment Defence Scheme

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1996/09/20 

            Field Visit, On 2002/06/27 

            Field Visit, During 1999 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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