Archaeology Notes

Event ID 842759

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO76NE 72 77778 65883

See also NO76NE 70 and NO76NE 71 NO76SE 10

A WW II type 24 pillbox has been identified from vertical air photographs (F22 540/RAF/1383, 124-7, flown 7 August 1954). The structure is also shown on the current OS digital 1:2500 scale map, set into a slope about 200m W of East Mathers Cottage. More recent air photography (OS 67/287, flown 1967 shows the structure to be grass covered. The pillbox is one of three protecting the bays between Tangleha' Cottages and Seagreens.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), October 2003