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An unidentified type of pillbox, brick or brick-shuttered, with a concrete roof and standing on a concrete base. There has been an erosion of soil under the pillbox base slab. Sited to protect the exits from Kenfig Sands as the entrance is to the N and the pillbox faces towards the sea.
(Source: Field Visit 2001/04)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (VARIANT)
      

      

        Location
        On an embankment overlooking an unclassified road leading to Kenfig, about 125 yards from the junction of the A48 and A4229 roads, Pyle.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Pyle, Bridgend, Wales

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SS 827 818
             (Scale: 1:50000
              , 1997)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Natural erosion (Medium Term) 
Detail: Erosion is undermining the base slab of the pillbox.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Dennett, David
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Glamorgan coast defences - The coastal crust defences of Glamorgan 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (1) - site location map.

      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (VARIANT) - S0011336
         

     (1) - exterior view (DIGITISED).  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0011336

      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, During 2001/04 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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