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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)
      

      

        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
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) - S0000669
         

       		
      

      

        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 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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