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Pillbox of common Dover type, brick-shuttered : square with overhanging roof slab and 2 embrasures per side. Built only to height of embrasure sills and left unfinished.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/04/14)
Standard brick construction square pillbox.
(Source: SMR )
Square, open structure plotted from air photograph [unroofed, uncompleted pillbox].
(Source: Air Photograph 1945/08/05)
Foundations of an uncompleted Dover-type pillbox, with brick corner work uprights set at an angle to the main structure. Heavily overgrown.
(Source: Field Visit 2004/02/11)
Pillbox plotted from German map.
(Source: Map 1941/06/01)
Type of site | PILLBOX (VARIANT) |
---|---|
Location | Near edge of Lunnons Wood, N of Little Farthingloe Farm. |
Area |
Dover, Kent, England |
Grid reference |
TR 2926 4068
(Scale: 1:25000
)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Very Bad |
Materials | Clay Brick, Concrete |
Threats |
Type: Plant growth (Long Term) Detail: Pillbox very overgrown. |
Recorder | Burridge, David (Defence of Britain Project) |
Defence grouping |
Dover nodal point - Defences of Dover nodal point. [Source: '12 Corps Plan to Defeat Invasion', 16 May 1941 - PRO WO 166/344]. |
Photographs |
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DOB site reference: | S0000957 |
Associated Identifier | Kent SMR (ref: KE13621: TR 24 SE 59) |
Reference |
1941/06/01 Sheet (Blatt) 117 1945/08/05 106G/UK/610 (fr.6372) |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1995/04/14 Field Visit, On 2004/02/11 |