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L-shaped reinforced concrete block, one end destroyed.
(Source: Field Visit 1994/09/13)
Angled section post, with its N end now projecting over the eroding cliff and broken off. A surviving doorway is at the SE end. There are five surviving embrasures in the E facing walls, one in the short S wall, and a minimum of five in the W wall (with others in the broken N section). Faces W along the cliff edge.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/04/30)
Angled structure plotted from air photograph. Faces W.
(Source: Air Photograph 1965/09/21)
Long angled structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1970)
Type of site | SECTION POST |
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Location | At the edge above Killerby Cliff, Cayton Bay. |
Area |
Cayton, Yorkshire, North, England |
Grid reference |
TA 07275 84130
(Scale: 1:2500
)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Bad |
Materials | Reinforced Concrete |
Threats |
Type: Coastal erosion (Immediate) Detail: The pillbox is highly vulnerable to falling to the cliff side below as its companion structure [UORN 2762] has done in recent years. |
Recorder | Cracknell, P (Fortress Study Group (20th Century Defences of Yorkshire)) |
Defence grouping |
North Yorkshire coast defences - Coastal crust and hinterland defences |
Photographs |
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DOB site reference: | S0002760 |
Original Reference | 8117 |
Reference |
1965/09/21 MAL/65081 (fr.118) 1941/03/13 MSO 31039 (fr.3724) |
Event |
Field Visit, On 1994/09/13 Construction, In the period 1941/03 Field Visit, On 2003/04/29 |