Record Details
| NHER Number: | 19437 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | World War Two pillbox |
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Summary
The remains of a 1940/41 type 20V pillbox, now completely ruined in the sea off Weybourne Hope. This site is likely to have formed part of one of two groups of World War Two coastal defences, mapped near this location by the NMP from wartime photography and recorded under NHER 38625-6, which included several pillboxes, a searchlight emplacement and a possible underground structure.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 1105 4378 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG14SW |
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| Parish: | WEYBOURNE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Pill box. Now below high water mark on beach. Brick skin almost gone, reinforced concrete shell hollowed out by waves. First noted by Pill Box Survey. Grid reference by E. Rose (NAU), 18 August 1983.
1994. No change.
2 February 1995. Still intact, quite remarkably considering a huge pebble bank has been raised as flood defence works on its inland side.
E. Rose (NAU), 3 February 1995.
See record form in file by source [1], who adds:
1940/41 type 20V pillbox, now completely ruined in sea off Weybourne Hope.
Survey Number D2-30.
D.Walker (NLA), July 1996.
April 2004.
No trace found, destroyed or permanently under water.
E. Rose (NLA), 13 April 2004.
May 2004. Norfolk NMP.
Two groups of World War Two coastal defences were mapped near this location during the NMP from wartime photography under NHER 38625-6. It is likely that the pillbox recorded above formed part of the NHER 38656 group, as this is nearer the recorded location of this pillbox, although with the inaccuracy of some of the intertidal and cliff top grid references it is possible that it may be part of NHER 38625. See records NHER 38625-6 for full details.
S. Massey (NMP), 10 May 2004.
Monument Types
- PILLBOX (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: Kent, P.. 1994. KHE 10-11. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Photograph: CLQ 4. |
Related records
| 38626 | Related to: Site of World War Two coastal defences (Monument) |
| 38625 | Related to: World War Two coastal defences (Monument) |
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