Pillbox (Warkworth)
Small field barn, used as a pill box during World War 2. Stone with a flat concrete roof with gunslots inserted to face the road. The west side was rebuilt with concrete-filled sand bags. Partly ruined, but still in use. (1)
Rectangular pillbox, disguised with stone facing to front and sides and concrete sandbags to rear. (2)
NRHE UID 1469810: Second World War pillbox is visible as a structure on air photographs centred at NU 2510 0456. The feature is still extant on the latest 1994 NMRC oblique photography. (3a)
NRHE UID 1418880 - Rectangular pillbox, disguised with stone facing to front and sides, and concrete sandbags to rear. Gloster Hill, Amble. Constructed as part of the Northumberland Coast Defences, 1940-1, and sited to NU 250 047, centre/point. Extant on survey 1996. (3b)
NRHE UID 1418880 - A pillbox listed Grade II, and also sited to NU 250 047, constructed in 1940 of coursed rubble, with an elongated hexagonal plan, flat roof, and single storey, partly recessed into the ground. Elongated front has three rifle embrasures, with a single machine-gun embrasure to each chamfered side front. The rear elevation has two rifle embrasures and a protected door. This pillbox was constructed as part of the Coquet Line of defences against German invasion during World War II. (3c)
NRHE UID 1418880 - [It is possible that these two descriptions refer to distinct monuments, or the confusion may be explained by the "chamfered sides" to the front elevation, causing the monument to be variously described as hexagonal and rectangular?] (3d)
NRHE UID 1418880 - Examination of NU 250 047 on EH deskGIS mapping shows that it is west of an unclassified road, west of Gloster Hill. (3e)
Rectangular pillbox, disguised with stone facing to front and sides and concrete sandbags to rear. (2)
NRHE UID 1469810: Second World War pillbox is visible as a structure on air photographs centred at NU 2510 0456. The feature is still extant on the latest 1994 NMRC oblique photography. (3a)
NRHE UID 1418880 - Rectangular pillbox, disguised with stone facing to front and sides, and concrete sandbags to rear. Gloster Hill, Amble. Constructed as part of the Northumberland Coast Defences, 1940-1, and sited to NU 250 047, centre/point. Extant on survey 1996. (3b)
NRHE UID 1418880 - A pillbox listed Grade II, and also sited to NU 250 047, constructed in 1940 of coursed rubble, with an elongated hexagonal plan, flat roof, and single storey, partly recessed into the ground. Elongated front has three rifle embrasures, with a single machine-gun embrasure to each chamfered side front. The rear elevation has two rifle embrasures and a protected door. This pillbox was constructed as part of the Coquet Line of defences against German invasion during World War II. (3c)
NRHE UID 1418880 - [It is possible that these two descriptions refer to distinct monuments, or the confusion may be explained by the "chamfered sides" to the front elevation, causing the monument to be variously described as hexagonal and rectangular?] (3d)
NRHE UID 1418880 - Examination of NU 250 047 on EH deskGIS mapping shows that it is west of an unclassified road, west of Gloster Hill. (3e)
N5616
Post Medieval (1540 to 1901)
Second World War (1939 to 1945)
Second World War (1939 to 1945)
MEASURED SURVEY, The Defence of Britain Project 2002
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION, English Heritage: North East Coast NMP Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey ; Archaeological Research Services
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION, English Heritage: North East Coast NMP Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey ; Archaeological Research Services
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