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Probably a type 22 pillbox situated on the S side of Limekiln Hill with field of fire S to beach. Brick-shuttered. with PLAN drawn on form.
(Source: Field Visit 1998/05/26)
Standard type 22 brick-walled pillbox, with walls 19ins thick and each approx. 7ft 6ins long. Reinforced concrete roof. Interior strewn with bricks from damaged walls. Most of side walls missing, but roof intact although now balanced precariously being supported in only three places.
(Source: Field Visit 1997/05/30)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)
      

      

        Location
        Labour In Vain Farm, on the S side of Limekiln Hill, West Bexington.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Puncknowle, Dorset, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SY 5380 8624
             (Scale: 1:50000
              , 1982)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Very Bad

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Collapse (Immediate) 
Detail: The damaged pillbox is very unstable. Only one wall is intact (facing sea). The roof is balanced precariously on the remaining brickwork. Further deterioration will result from weather exposure.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Farthing, Geoff (Pillbox Study Group)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Dorset coast defences - Defences of the Dorset coast line and immediate hinterland. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) - S0006497
         

     (5) - site and exterior views (1 DIGITISED).  		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Type 22 pillboxes at SY 547858 and SY 555852.

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0006497

      

      

        Reference
        
             1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1998/05/26 

            Field Visit, On 1997/05/30 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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