Defence of Britain Archive

Council for British Archaeology, 2002. (updated 2006) https://doi.org/10.5284/1000327. How to cite using this DOI

Digital Object Identifiers

Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) are persistent identifiers which can be used to consistently and accurately reference digital objects and/or content. The DOIs provide a way for the ADS resources to be cited in a similar fashion to traditional scholarly materials. More information on DOIs at the ADS can be found on our help page.

Citing this DOI

The updated Crossref DOI Display guidelines recommend that DOIs should be displayed in the following format:

https://doi.org/10.5284/1000327
Sample Citation for this DOI

Council for British Archaeology (2006) Defence of Britain Archive [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1000327

Data copyright © Council for British Archaeology unless otherwise stated

This work is licensed under the ADS Terms of Use and Access.
Creative Commons License


Council for British Archaeology logo

Primary contact

Council for British Archaeology
92 Micklegate
York
YO1 6JX
England
Tel: +44 (0)1904
Fax: 671417

Send e-mail enquiry

Resource identifiers

Digital Object Identifiers

Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) are persistent identifiers which can be used to consistently and accurately reference digital objects and/or content. The DOIs provide a way for the ADS resources to be cited in a similar fashion to traditional scholarly materials. More information on DOIs at the ADS can be found on our help page.

Citing this DOI

The updated Crossref DOI Display guidelines recommend that DOIs should be displayed in the following format:

https://doi.org/10.5284/1000327
Sample Citation for this DOI

Council for British Archaeology (2006) Defence of Britain Archive [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1000327

[Return to results list]

Emplacement for housing Vickers medium machine gun. Massive main embrasure, external dimensions 5ft x 2ft 2ins. Facing NNW across Pawlett Hams. Largely overgrown and being used as a tip by farmer.
(Source: Field Visit 1997/08/29)
Vickers emplacement. N.V.4. Cassini ref. 728643.
(Source: Document 1940)
Square emplacement (N.V.4). Camouflaged as a haystack.
(Source: Document 1940)
Vickers emplacement on summit of Pawlett Hill. Concrete-faced, and constructed with horizontal wooden planking as shuttering. Cut off corners, but not with a chamfered roof line. Large embrasure for medium machine gun - internal concrete table as weapon mount. Two rifle embrasures. Entrance, with detached blast wall, on W side. Faces N. At edge of field and access possible: internal access blocked by vegetation.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/01/15)
Square structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1969)


      

        Type of site
        VICKERS MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT
      

      

        Location
        Libbers Field, summit of Pawlett Hill, N of Bridgwater.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Pawlett, Somerset, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            ST 28915 43086
             (Scale: 1:2500
              , 1969)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Dumping (Medium Term) 
Detail: Farmer is using site as a tip.

        		
      

      

        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
        
View of VICKERS MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT - S0000309
         

       		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Type 28 pillbox at ST 290431 and 2 type 24 pillboxes at ST 289433 and ST 290431.

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0000309

      

      

        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]

             1940/10/30 Home Defence Progress Report: Taunton Line

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1997/08/29 

            Field Visit, On 2003/01/15 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

        ADS logo
    


    

        
			Data Org logo
        
    


    

        University of York logo
    


    

         
            alt=