Pillbox Type 24 (Shell-proof) at Barcombe Mills [Find others in East Sussex]

Serial numbers/identifiers

DESPro: 1981

Defence of Britain Project: 712

East Sussex HER: MES7692

Wartime Serial/Post No.: A250

Location

Cassini Grid: wQ 872 337

National Grid: TQ 43496 14787

Access

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Defence hierarchy

DESPro2368: GHQ LINE

DESPro1981: Pillbox Type 24 (Shell-proof)

No child defences have been identified

2 features recorded as being in Cassini Grid Square wQ 87 33 (Max 2 displayed)
DESPro	Location	Feature	Cassini Grid	Age	Status
1980	Barcombe Mills	Pillbox Type 24 (Shell-proof) [A251]	wQ 871 337	1940?
1981	Barcombe Mills	Pillbox Type 24 (Shell-proof) [A250]	wQ 872 337	1940?

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Incident log for Cassini Grid Square wQ 87 33
Date	Time	Grid	Source	Incident
No incidents have been logged for this grid square.

Cassini Grid Square wQ 87 33
Reproduced from the 1940 Ordnance Survey map
with the kind permission of the Ordnance Survey

Image of Grid Square wQ 87 33 and surrounding area

Evidence

Historian's comments Data witheld.
	Surviving Evidence (post-1945)
The entrance to this Type 24 was bricked up by the Environment Agency in 2007 along with that of [DESPro1980]. A single corkscrew picket was found in the stream just north of the pillbox in 2008.

Historian's comments

Data witheld.

Surviving Evidence (post-1945)

The entrance to this Type 24 was bricked up by the Environment Agency in 2007 along with that of [DESPro1980]. A single corkscrew picket was found in the stream just north of the pillbox in 2008.

Photograph of Pillbox Type 24 (Shell-proof)

Photo ID: DSCF8525
Date: 29/10/2006
Camera facing: South-west
Photographer: Peter Hibbs

Photo ID: DSCF8522
Date: 29/10/2006
Camera facing: South-west
Photographer: Peter Hibbs

Photo ID: DSCF3660
Date: 27/04/2008
Camera facing: North-west
Photographer: Peter Hibbs

Photo ID: DSCF3634
Date: 27/04/2008
Camera facing: South-east
Photographer: Peter Hibbs
Notes: Entrance bricked up.

Photo ID: DSCF3648
Date: 27/04/2008
Camera facing: North-east
Photographer: Peter Hibbs
Notes: Stream in front of pillbox; corkscrew picket at lower right.

Photo ID: DSCF8532
Date: 29/10/2006
Camera facing: South-east
Photographer: Peter Hibbs
Notes: 'A250' stencilled on baffle wall in entrance.

Photo ID: DSCF5389
Date: 04/11/2007
Camera facing: N/A
Photographer: Peter Hibbs
Notes: Bren gun tripod set up in embrasure.

Photo ID: DSCF5397
Date: 04/11/2007
Camera facing: N/A
Photographer: Peter Hibbs
Notes: Bren mount as seen from outside.

Hibbs, Peter DESPro1981: Pillbox Type 24 (Shell-proof) at Barcombe Mills (2010) Available at: http://www.pillbox.org.uk/concrete_evidence/detail.asp?ID=1981 Accessed: 05 September 2010