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Rectangular pillbox with sloping roof, faces S. Built on large platform dug into railway embankment. [Possible remains of black camouflage paint used to make pillboxes look like workmen's huts.
(Source: Field Visit 1999/05/05)
Type of site | PILLBOX (VARIANT) |
---|---|
Location | W side of former rail crossing, on River Dove |
Area |
Rolleston, Staffordshire, England |
Grid reference |
SK 243 287
(Scale: 1:25000
, 1981)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Good |
Materials | Concrete |
Recorder | Osborne, Mike (Defence of Britain Project) |
Defence grouping |
Western Command Stop Line No 5 - Tamworth to Burton-on-Trent and thence by River Dove to Ashbourne |
Attached Sheets | SRF by AJ Regan attached to UORN 5368 (the river is the county boundary, see Derbyshire) |
Photographs |
(4) - external views of both sites attached to UORN 5368 (1 DIGITISED to this UORN) |
Adjacent sites | Pillbox at SK 243288 |
DOB site reference: | S0005367 |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1999/05/05 |