NHER 24265 (Monument record) - World War Two pillbox

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Summary

A type 20 polygonal brick and concrete pillbox on the edge of a low cliff overlooking the beach. It dates to about 1940 and was part of the anti-invasion defences of the time.

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None recorded

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Map sheet	TG14SW
Civil Parish	WEYBOURNE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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January 1988. Visited.
Pillbox or gun position.
Part of polygonal platform of brick and concrete protruding from cliff overlookinng little valley north of Weybourne Camp. Not possible to see if a buried pill box or a solid gun platform.
E. Rose (NAU), 4 January 1988.

Yes, it is a pillbox; erosion has revealed a gun slit in one side.
E. Rose (NLA), 18 July 1994.

See record form in file by source [1], who adds:
Quite rare, type 20/A/X pillbox on edge of low cliff above beach.
Survey Number D2-25.
D.Walker (NLA), July 1996.

April 2004.
Still extant.
E. Rose (NLA), 13 April 2004.

Associated Sources (3)

--- SNF51795 Photograph: Kent, P.. 1994. KHF 35.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.

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Record last edited

Nov 25 2014 5:06PM