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Type 24 pillbox, with excellent interior condition. Brick-skinned, interior and exterior. Slots cut into walls inside below embrasures, 2 to each embrasure. Heavily overgrown with ivy. Forms part of the defensive line along the Uckfield to Ashurst railway defending the E approach to Jarvis Brook.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/02/26)
Bunker.
(Source: Map 2000/08/03)
Pillbox plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1970)
Brick-shuttered type 24 pillbox, in good, clean condition, externally and internally, if overgrown. Faces NE. Bricks of a darker red colour than adjacent pillboxes. Two steps down to entrance. Interior access possible.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/12/04)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) |
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Location | At the N edge of the Roughets, S of sewage works, close to railway line. |
Area |
Rotherfield, Sussex, East, England |
Grid reference |
TQ 54972 31794
(Scale: 1:2500
, 1970)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Good |
Materials | Clay Brick, Reinforced Concrete |
Threats |
Type: Plant growth (Long Term) Detail: The pillbox is overgrown. |
Recorder | Farthing, Geoff (Pillbox Study Group) |
Defence grouping |
GHQ Line (East Sussex / Kent) - Section from Crowborough - Penshurst, passing to the W of Tunbridge Wells. |
Photographs |
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Adjacent sites | Pillbox at TQ 550319, and type 24 at TQ 540314. |
DOB site reference: | S0000663 |
Reference |
2000/08/03 Old Lodge Warren and Extension |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1995/02/26 Field Visit, During 2000 Field Visit, On 2003/12/04 |