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Type 24 pillbox.
(Source: Field Visit 1997/08/29)
Bren gun emplacement. N.7.
(Source: Document 1940)
Type 24 pillbox (N.7) camouflaged as a square building with pitched roof. 'Blacksmith' painted on outside wall.
(Source: Document 1940)
Hexagonal type 24 pillbox, concrete-faced, in centre of large open field on near summit of hill. No access. Faces N.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/01/15)
Pillbox type 24 modified. Reference N7. Roof 10ins thick. Vertical 4ins wide square shaft right through the roof. 2 steps down into entrance. Walls 42ins-43ins thick.
(Source: Article 1995/06)
Hexagonal structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet. It faces NNW.
(Source: Map 1969)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) |
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Location | Levetts Field, summit of Pawlett Hill, N of Bridgwater.
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Area |
Pawlett, Somerset, England |
Grid reference |
ST 28914 43285
(Scale: 1:2500
, 1969)
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Period | WW2 |
Condition | Good |
Materials | Reinforced Concrete |
Recorder | Thomson, L.E.J. |
Defence grouping |
Southern Command: Taunton Stop Line - Stop line running N - S through Somerset and South Devon - from Highbridge to Seaton via Taunton. |
Photographs |
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Adjacent sites | 2 type 28 pillboxes at ST 290431 and ST 289431; and 1 type 24 at ST 290431. |
DOB site reference: | S0000306 |
Reference |
1995/06 The Pawlett Strongpoint 1940 Taunton Stop Line: record map folios of Major F.B. Goodman R.E., D.C.R.E. Taunton 1940 [copies of Royal Engineers drawings of camouflaged emplacements on the Taunton Stop Line] |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1997/08/29 Field Visit, On 2003/01/15 |