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Gunhouse with holdfast for gun on roof.
(Source: Field Visit )
Rectangular concrete-faced pillbox with concrete lumps on roof to break up outline. Bolts on roof indicate AA gun mounting. Now sunken in sand bluff with embrasures below ground and only top of doorway showing. Faces NE towards sea.
(Source: Field Visit 2002/10/23)
This structure may represent 'Sea View Post' - platoon locality. 'D' Coy 7th Btn. Royal Norfolk Regiment. 2 x LMGs; 2 x SMGs; 1 x 2in mortar. Cassini ref. 932113.
(Source: Document 1941/06/02)
Seaview Post. Centre Coy. 1 x A/Tk. rifle. 3 x LMG. Cassini ref. 932113.
(Source: Document 1941/08/27)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (VARIANT)
      

      

        Location
        On crest of sand dunes NW of Seaview Farm by carpark, Saltfleetby St. Clement.
[with sketch location PLAN].

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Saltfleetby St. Clement, Lincolnshire, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TF 46434 92458
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Burial (Uncertain) 
Detail: Pillbox may be buried up to the roof.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Osborne, Mike (Defence of Britain Project)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Lincolnshire coast defences - Defences of the Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire coasts and the immediate hinterland. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (VARIANT) - S0005131
         

     (2) - exterior views  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0005131

      

      

        Reference
        
             1941/06/02 7th Bn. Royal Norfolk Regiment Defence Scheme

             1941/08/27 Defence Scheme 'A' Sub Sector

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 2002/10/23 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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