Defence of Britain Database Anti-invasion record: S0000137

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The gun emplacement is built in the style of a barn. The walls are 45cm thick, with above the walls a pitched roof in corrugated asbestos sheeting. The building has an internal width of 5.25m by 4.5m length. On the south side an embrasure of 2.5m x 2.1m forms the gun position suitable for a field piece. The external walls are cantered back on either side of the embrasure but the pitched roof extends to the square, supported on concrete corner posts. There is a rear access door on the north side which has a substantial blast wall. There is a substantial ceiling constructed out of railway sleepers suspended by steel brackets. Evidence of earthen embankments covering the side of the structure survive.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/10)

Type of site	GUN EMPLACEMENT
Location	Adjacent to road running south from Ellastone Village to bridge over River Dove.
Area	Ellastone, Staffordshire, England
Grid reference	SK 120 425 (Scale: 1:25000 , 1985)
Period	WW2
Condition	Good
Materials	Asbestos, Concrete, Iron
Recorder	Mein, Henry J.
Defence grouping	Western Command Stop Line No 5 - Tamworth to Burton-on-Trent and thence by River Dove to Ashbourne
Attached Sheets	(6) - One sheet of additional notes, two with photographs and location map, two of lists of other sites in area and one of plans (part DIGITISED).
Photographs	(2) - external views (DIGITISED).
DOB site reference:	S0000137
Reference	1994/06 Pillbox Typology Part 5: Gunhouses.
Event	Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1996/10 Field Visit, On 1997/06