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Type 28a anti-tank gun emplacement.
(Source: Book 1999)
Rectangular structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1973)
Type 28A anti-tank gun emplacement, built, as others in the Semington area, with a part-shuttering of end-on bricks and breeze blocks. Main embrasure faces W. Used as a store for wooden posts. No interior access possible owing to a wall blocking the entrance. In field off footpath.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/02/04)
Square structure plotted from air photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1946/07/12)
Anti-tank gun emplacement. Ref. 48.
(Source: Document 1940/12)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28A) |
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Location | By hedgerow SW of Outmarsh Farm, Semington. |
Area |
Semington, Wiltshire, England |
Grid reference |
ST 89769 61365
(Scale: 1:2500
, 1973)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Fair |
Materials | Breeze Block, Clay Brick, Concrete, Reinforced Concrete |
Recorder | Alexander, Colin (Pillbox Study Group) |
Defence grouping |
GHQ Line: Blue - Section of GHQ Stop Line running from near Melksham to Reading. Semington centre of resistance - The defences of Semington on the GHQ Blue Line. After 1940 the defences were developed as a Centre of Resistance (Nodal Point) manned by the 4th Bn. Wiltshire Home Guard. (South Wiltshire Sub Area, 1942 - PRO WO 166/6785). |
Photographs |
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DOB site reference: | S0008679 |
Reference |
1999 Ironside's Line 1940/12 [copy of map of 4th Bn. Wiltshire Home Guard showing defence positions on the Kennet & Avon Canal] 1946/07/12 106G/UK/1661 (fr.3182) |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 2003/02/04 |