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Type 24 pillbox, with brick skin interior and exterior. Excellent interior condition, with 2 slots below each embrasure. Pillbox set into slope with steps into entrance. Heavily overgrown.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/02/26)
Bunker.
(Source: Map 2000/08/03)
Hexagonal pillbox plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet. Faces SE.
(Source: Map 1970)
Brick-shuttered variant form of a type 24 pillbox, dug into slope facing E over stream. No external concrete surrounds to embrasures. Long line of steps down to entrance in W face.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/12/04)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) |
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Location | Hornshurst Wood, E of railway line, on slope overlooking and stream. |
Area |
Rotherfield, Sussex, East, England |
Grid reference |
TQ 54710 31202
(Scale: 1:2500
, 1970)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Fair |
Materials | Clay Brick, Reinforced Concrete |
Threats |
Type: Plant growth (Long Term) Detail: The pillbox is very 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 | Type 24 pillboxes at TQ 547314 and TQ 546310. |
DOB site reference: | S0000669 |
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 |