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Top and sides now coated in concrete, no features visible. Top now sports a flag pole
with PLAN
(Source: Field Visit 1995/12/04)
Site of hexagonal pillbox. This was disguised as a cafe with over-hanging pointed roof. The sea wall either side was covered with dannert wire. [Recorder recalls seeing this as a child in 1944].
(Source: Field Visit 2001)
Type of site | PILLBOX |
---|---|
Location | On Blue Anchor Beach, built into seawall, opposite entrance to caravan park. |
Area |
Carhampton, Somerset, England |
Grid reference |
ST 0257 4353
(Scale: 1:25000
)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Bad |
Materials | Concrete, Sandbags |
Recorder | Milton, J. (West Somerset Archaeological Society) |
Defence grouping |
Somerset coast defences - Defences of the Somerset coast line and immediate hinterland. |
Photographs |
![]() (1) - site view (DIGITISED). |
DOB site reference: | S0001566 |
Original Reference | 6878 |
Event |
Field Visit, On 1995/12/04 Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, During 2001 |