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eDoB Online Map - VICKERS MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT: S0000309 (Extant)

Location: Libbers Field, summit of Pawlett Hill, N of Bridgwater.

Condition: Good

Description: 29/08/1997 Emplacement for housing Vickers medium machine gun. Massive main embrasure, external dimensions 5ft x 2ft 2ins. Facing NNW across Pawlett Hams. Largely overgrown and being used as a tip by farmer. 1969 Square structure plotted from OS 1: 2500 sheet. 1940 Vickers emplacement. N. V. 4. Cassini ref. 728643. 1940 Square emplacement (N. V. 4). Camouflaged as a haystack. 15/01/2003 Vickers emplacement on summit of Pawlett Hill. Concrete-faced, and constructed with horizontal wooden planking as shuttering. Cut off corners, but not with a chamfered roof line. Large embrasure for medium machine gun - internal concrete table as weapon mount. Two rifle embrasures. Entrance, with detached blast wall, on W side. Faces N. At edge of field and access possible: internal access blocked by vegetation.

Original record text is copyright of the Council for British Archaeology.

Source: Defence of Britain Archive

Record details

EDOBID: e06833

Last Edited: 29/11/2018 10:07:05

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