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Type 28a anti-tank gun emplacement. [Original defence site number - 258].
(Source: Book 1999)
Anti-tank gun emplacement. Built with horizontal wooden planking. Chamfered roof edge. One main embrasure, now blocked and glazed, faces W. Doorway, now with wooden door in position, on E face. Used as a store for chemicals. All embrasures blocked and/or glazed. A farm equipment shed has been built close to the emplacement. An adjacent anti-tank gun emplacement [UORN 11973] is a few yards to the W, but across a hedge and barbed wire fence on the land of another farm.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/09/04)
Rectangular pillbox structure plotted from air photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1944/03/08)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28A) |
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Location | By track, WNW of Collins Farm, W of Frilford. |
Area |
Frilford, Oxfordshire, England |
Grid reference |
SU 43277 97630
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Period | WW2 |
Condition | Fair |
Materials | Reinforced Concrete |
Recorder | Alexander, Colin (Pillbox Study Group) |
Defence grouping |
GHQ Line: Red - GHQ Stop Line running from south of Malmesbury to west of Reading. |
Photographs |
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DOB site reference: | S0009546 |
Reference |
GHQ Line Rear or Section Red: Research Report 1999 Ironside's Line 1944/03/08 US/7PH/GP/LOC208 (frs.5003-5004) |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 2003/09/04 |