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Hexagonal structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet. Faces N.
(Source: Map 1972)
Pillbox (originally perhaps seven-sided on a circular core, the sides built up by concreted sandbags). Built into railway embankment; height at front approx. 9ft, at rear approx. 5ft. Entrance originally 4ft high (now 3ft). 7 embrasures. Concrete base and lower walls, concrete-filled sandbags for rest of walls. Metal lined concrete roof, with earth and grass on top. Steel embrasures set in brick and block surrounds. Concrete block blast walls; some wood surviving in entrance.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/05/16)
Pillbox dug into S bank of railway line by a stream. Crumbling concrete exterior, overgrown. Faces S. Curving entrance way under corrugated iron roof on N side. Built on a base of concreted sandbags.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/01/16)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX
      

      

        Location
        On the landward (S) side of the Minehead - Taunton railway line, near a public crossing point N of Lowermead Copse, W of Blue Anchor.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Dunster, Somerset, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            ST 01371 43611
             (Scale: 1:2500
              , 1972)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Corrugated Iron, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Plant growth (Long Term) 
Detail: The pillbox is badly overgrown.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Foot, William (English Heritage Defence Areas Project)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Somerset coast defences - Defences of the Somerset coast line and immediate hinterland. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX - S0016303
         

       		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0016303

      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1996/05/16 

            Field Visit, On 2003/01/16 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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