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Type of rectangular HMG emplacement, with 6 very wide and open embrasures, each fronting a Vickers table. At each front corner is a horizontal slit.
(Source: Field Visit 1993)
Machine gun pillbox. Concrete tables are in position beneath the embrasures (interior).
(Source: Field Visit 2000/07/24)
Coastal 'strongbox'. [The accompanying plan was prepared by the recorder for East Sussex County Council].
(Source: Field Visit 1994/10)


      

        Type of site
        MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT
      

      

        Location
        At the entrance to Rye Harbour, on W bank of River Rother.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Rye, Sussex, East, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TQ 948 181
             (Scale: 1:25000
              , 1997)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Osborne, Mike (Defence of Britain Project)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Sussex coast defences - Defences of the East and West Sussex coastlines, and their immediate hinterland. 

 
 Rye nodal point - Defences of Rye Category 'A' nodal point. Cassini ref. R3538. [Source:  List of Nodal Points in Eastern Command, 1940 - PRO WO 199/544]. Also designated a 'fortress' [Source: 45 Div. Defence Scheme, 1940 - PRO WO 166/536]. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (1) - plan.

      

      

        Photographs
        
View of MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT - S0006989
View of MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT - S0006989
         

     (7) - 3 interior, 4 exterior views (photocopies and prints) (2 DIGITISED).  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0006989

      

      

        Reference
        
              Pillbox Typology Part 3: Square and Rectangular Types

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, During 1993 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 2000/07/24 

            Field Visit, During 1994/10 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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