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Type 24 variant pillbox, with thickened walls, and with embrasures in front and side walls only which are small externally but generously splayed internally and with semi-circular concrete machine gun tables. There is no interior anti-ricochet wall, but a pillar 1ft square from roof to roof just inside the entrance. Three-quarter inch reinforcing rods in the walls extend to about 6ins above the roof and may perhaps have been used to retain an earthen covering or to anchor camouflage netting. The pillbox stands about 2 feet from the chapel's south wall [see plan attached].
(Source: Article 1998)
Type of site | PILLBOX (VARIANT) |
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Location | Next to medieval chapel, at foot of escarpment above Romney Marsh, Court-at-Street. |
Area |
Lympne, Kent, England |
Grid reference |
TR 090 352
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Period | WW2 |
Condition | Fair |
Materials | Reinforced Concrete |
Recorder | Burridge, David (Defence of Britain Project) |
Defence grouping |
South East Command: Stop Line (Romney Marsh) - Stop Line from Rye (East Sussex) to Sandgate E of Hythe (Kent), following the line of the Royal Military Canal. |
Photographs |
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DOB site reference: | S0007099 |
Reference |
1998/07 The Holy Maid of Kent |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 |