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Monument details

Summary

A Second World War pillbox (Type 22 or 24) survives to the west of Sarre Ferry Cottage, with door to the east. Shown on German 11.1940 fortifications map with ring of barbed wire defences.

Monument Types

• PILLBOX (Modern - 1940 AD to 1945 AD?)

Full description

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A Second World War pillbox (Type 22 or 24) survives to the west of Sarre Ferry Cottage. It may have been associated with the roadblock/prepared demolition at Bolingbroke Bridge, to the north-east, but we cannot yet be sure. Alternatively (since it may face west or south-west) it may have been part of the defences of the Sarre Second World War Nodal Point. This is reported to be a ‘small hexagonal Type 22 pillbox, a variant inasmuch as there are two rifle ports, one each side of the entrance … concrete-faced [with] square, stepped embrasures’. And to stand ‘on small mound with thin concrete base partly exposed … overgrown on one side’.
Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : No
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Condition : good
Date of visit :

This structure was recorded from 1940s aerial photographs [2] as part of Phase 1 of the South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey.

A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [3].

John Guy, CBA Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). SKE15383.

<1> John Guy, CBA Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). Ske15383.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2009-10, South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions (Digital archive). SWX15705.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document). SKE25955.

<3> Cornwall Council Historic Environment Projects and Gloucestershire County Council, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document). SKE25954.

<4> English Heritage, 2004, Defence areas: a national study of Second World War anti-invasion landscapes in England (Unpublished document). SKE17661.

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