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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 C-shaped in plan, open on the northern side, and measured 5m E-W x 4m N-S. It had apparently been removed by July 1945, as it is not visible on RAF vertical aerial photographs of this date [2]. Its function is unclear but it may be a wall sheltering a machine gun position, probably covering the railway line. A similar feature (MWX43066) lies 70m to the west, 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2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document).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South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document).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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