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eDoB Online Map - PILLBOX: S0000417 (Removed)

Location: On top of bank behind school off Barrach Street, Colchester

Condition: Unknown

Description: 15/01/1997 Pillbox (no further description given) , site located on map at Cambridge University Library.

EDoB Update: Visible in Google Earth. Location adjusted.

EDoB Update: 24/03/2020 Site visit by Pillbox Study Group member Matt Aldred shows tis location to be a tank of some kind. Old OS maps show the pillbox some distance away and it is now demolished. Location adjusted. Status updated.

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

Source: Defence of Britain Archive

Record details

EDOBID: e01548

Last Edited: 24/03/2020 16:31:10

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