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Monument details

Summary

A walled structure, interpreted as a machine gun position, visible on early 1940s aerial photographs. It appears to have been removed by 1945.

Monument Types

• MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT (Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Full description

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A walled structure visible sited adjacent to the railway line on early 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs [1]. The structure is unroofed and igloo-shaped in plan and measured 4m in diameter. It had apparrently been removed by July 1945, as it is not visible on RAF vertical aerial photographs of this date [2]. It appears to be a machine gun position, probably covering the railway line. Another similar feature (MWX43067) lies 70m to the east, also sited on the edge of the railway, and was presumably part of the same defensive scheme.

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

<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2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document).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South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document).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.

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