Monument record MWX1340 - Type 26 pillbox on Chesil Beach, Abbotsbury

Type 26 (variant) pillbox. Upper surface of pillbox is pebble-dashed for camouflage. Wood-shuttered. with PLAN drawn on form. Visible on aerial photographs and digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Type 26 (variant - no rear embrasure) situated on beach with field of fire along beach E/W and out to sea. Upper surface of pillbox is pebble-dashed for camouflage. Wood-shuttered.

with PLAN drawn on form. Square pillbox, half pebble-dashed (camouflage). 7ft 6ins tall; sides 10ft long; walls 18ins thick. Constructed on concrete plinth 12ft x 12ft x 12ins (thick). Four retaining bolts on roof at front.Chesil Beach, below East Bexington Farm. <1-3>

Visible on aerial photographs <4> and digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Council for British Archaeology, 1995, Defence of Britain Project, S0006496 (Digital archive). SWX5.

<2> Council for British Archaeology, 2003, Defence of Britain Project Database, S0006496 (Machine readable data file). SDO128.

<3> Council for British Archaeology, 2006, Defence of Britain Project Archive DEB01, S0006496 (Excavation archive). SDO17227.

<4> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3284-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11620.

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Sep 6 2024 4:36PM