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eDoB Online Map - PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22): S0000260 (Extant)
Location: Beranburh field, RAF Wroughton, nr. Swindon.
Condition: Fair
Description: 06/1996 Hexagon-shaped pillbox with 6 embrasures, one in each wall, including a full size embrasure off-set in the side containing the door. Constructed of concrete with brick shuttering (40cm thick walls) and external cement cladding (now partially eroded). The roof is very solid and is of concrete over half inch iron reinforcing bars originally on to wooden shuttering. All embrasures are stepped pre-cast concrete, but there is no evidence of brackets or shutters. On what appears to be the main defence arc, the embrasure has been enlarged and lowered to form what might be a 45cm x 48cm firing port. Inside the pillbox is a centrally placed, concrete anti-ricochet wall consisting of 3 equal wings and 3 bays; this also acts as an additional roof support. Outside, the ground is level with the bottom of the embrasures and the roof has a lip around it with drainage holes, probably for natural turf camouflage, of which none remains. Access is by an offset half doorway. The entrance is protected by semi-sunken exterior blast walls. All the embrasures and the doorway have now been blocked, although access can still be made through the enlarged embrasure. The main defence arc of the pillbox is S to SW.
EDoB Update: Visible in Google Earth. Location adjusted.
Original record text is copyright of the Council for British Archaeology.
Source: Defence of Britain Archive
Record details
EDOBID: e03132
Last Edited: 23/05/2019 14:27:15
Condition: Fair
Description: 06/1996 Hexagon-shaped pillbox with 6 embrasures, one in each wall, including a full size embrasure off-set in the side containing the door. Constructed of concrete with brick shuttering (40cm thick walls) and external cement cladding (now partially eroded). The roof is very solid and is of concrete over half inch iron reinforcing bars originally on to wooden shuttering. All embrasures are stepped pre-cast concrete, but there is no evidence of brackets or shutters. On what appears to be the main defence arc, the embrasure has been enlarged and lowered to form what might be a 45cm x 48cm firing port. Inside the pillbox is a centrally placed, concrete anti-ricochet wall consisting of 3 equal wings and 3 bays; this also acts as an additional roof support. Outside, the ground is level with the bottom of the embrasures and the roof has a lip around it with drainage holes, probably for natural turf camouflage, of which none remains. Access is by an offset half doorway. The entrance is protected by semi-sunken exterior blast walls. All the embrasures and the doorway have now been blocked, although access can still be made through the enlarged embrasure. The main defence arc of the pillbox is S to SW.
EDoB Update: Visible in Google Earth. Location adjusted.
Original record text is copyright of the Council for British Archaeology.
Source: Defence of Britain Archive
Record details
EDOBID: e03132
Last Edited: 23/05/2019 14:27:15
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