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Type 24 pillbox, of a variant form without interior blast wall, with 3 embrasures and a side entrance. Brick-skinned. Excellent interior condition. Built into slope of railway embankment. Foundations at front of pillbox visible. Forms part of defensive line using Uckfield - Ashurst railway as a natural defensive position overlooking valley to E and defending the E approach to Jarvis Brook and Crowborough.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/02/26)
Rectangular pillbox plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1970)
Non-standard design pillbox, with single embrasure with a field of fire S over a deep brook. Set into a bank with a sunken entrance. Brick, with corrugated shuttered roof. The concrete roof is detached from the walls.
(Source: Field Visit 1999/04/25)
Non-standard brick-shuttered pillbox set into bottom slope of railway embankment. Faces SE. Built up on a 3ft thick concrete base. Embrasures (4) do not have exterior concrete surrounds, but brickwork only. Brick and concrete wall at rear against land slippage. Doorway on N side. Interior access possible.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/12/04)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (VARIANT)
      

      

        Location
        On railway embankment by footpath at Rochester's Forest, Jarvis Brook.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Rotherfield, Sussex, East, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TQ 54189 30320
             (Scale: 1:2500
              , 1970)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        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 (VARIANT) - S0000675
         

       		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Type 24 pillboxes at TQ 542302 and TQ 545306.

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0000675

      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1995/02/26 

            Field Visit, On 1999/04/25 

            Field Visit, On 2003/12/04 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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