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Concrete-faced type 28a anti-tank gun emplacement. Overgrown.
(Source: Field Visit 1999/12/04)
Brick-shuttered type 28A anti-tank gun emplacement. Main stepped, square embrasure faces ENE, with holdfast for 6pdr. gun. Has interior dividing wall creating side LMG chamber. Chamfered corners. Earth now piled up at rear and overgrown. Access, including interior, possible.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/12/17)
Large, rectangular structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1969)
Rectangular pillbox plotted from air photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1946/05/01)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28A)
      

      

        Location
        Close to the S edge of the M20 motorway and the railway line, by a footpath adjacent to the Business Park at Allington Quarry.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Maidstone, Kent, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TQ 74238 58192
             (Scale: 1:2500
              , 1969)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Plant growth (Long Term) 
Detail: The emplacement is overgrown.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Urquhart, Cyril
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 GHQ Line (North West Kent) - GHQ Line running from Leigh to River Thames via Medway valley. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28A) - S0009513
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28A) - S0009513
         

     (1) - exterior view.  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0009513

      

      

        Reference
        
             1946/05/01 106G/UK/1444 (fr.3404)

             1947/01/16 CPE/UK/1923 (fr.3191)

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1999/12/04 

            Field Visit, On 2003/12/17 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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