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Large pillbox, with 2 separate rooms. Square embrasure, with machine gun mounting plate beneath it, facing SE across river crossing, with brick shuttered walls; concrete roof. Overgrown.
(Source: Field Visit 1997/04/23)
Type 28a anti-tank emplacement.
(Source: Field Visit 1997)
Type 28a anti-tank gun emplacement. Brick-shuttered exterior; interior with brick dividing blast wall. Holdfast mounting in main gun chamber. Whitewashed. Wood shelf in machine gun chamber. Brick shelf supports. Two vents at rear and in corner. Sunken entrance in slope with brick guarded entrance with rifle embrasure at side. Field of fire S to road / river bridge and seep river cutting. with PLAN drawn on form.
(Source: Field Visit 1999/04/11)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28A)
      

      

        Location
        On land belonging to Waterloo Farm [Bivelham Farm]. At side of public footpath.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Wadhurst, Sussex, East, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TQ 6363 2646
             (Scale: 1:25000
              )
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Plant growth (Long Term) 
Detail: Site overgrown.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Pilling, B. (Mayfield Local History Society)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 South East Command: Corps (Rother) Stop Line  - Stop line section from Uckfield to Romney Marsh. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28A) - S0000632
         

     (3) - 1 x exterior, 2 x interior views (1 DIGITISED).  		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Type 24 pillbox to E at TQ 646268.

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0000632

      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1997/04/23 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1999/04/11 

            Field Visit, During 1997 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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