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Pillbox with 6 sides: 5 embrasures, all with metal flaps. Door 28ins wide, 3 steps up and then steps down into pillbox. Overall height approx. 8ft. Brick anti-ricochet wall. Concrete walls all have wood battens inset to take outside wood cladding (one piece still in place). Pillbox was disguised as a platelayer's hut. False brick chimney on roof. with PLAN drawn on form.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/03/05)
Structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1972)
Type 24 pillbox, concrete-faced (possibly originally with brick shuttering). Steel surrounds to embrasures. Faces railway line (N). Two steps up to doorway. There is a chimney stack on the roof from original camouflage. In excellent condition. No public access.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/01/16)
Pillbox plotted from air photograph standing by railway, with camouflage in place to make it look like a railside building with pitched roof.
(Source: Air Photograph 1941/06/27)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)
      

      

        Location
        On landward (S) side of railway line, S of Dunster Beach.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Dunster, Somerset, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            ST 00730 43889
             (Scale: 1:2500
              , 1972)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Corrugated Iron, 
            Reinforced Concrete, 
            Wood
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Astell, K.W. (West Somerset Archaeological Society)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Somerset coast defences - Defences of the Somerset coast line and immediate hinterland. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (1) - photocopy of photograph.

      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) - S0000426
         

     (1) - exterior view.  		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Part of Dunster Beach / Blue Anchor defences.

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0000426

      

      

        Reference
        
             1941/06/27 ST 0044/6 (fr.049)

             1941/06/27 S/262 (fr.61)

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1996/03/05 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 2003/01/16 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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