Building record TR 24 SE 56 - Pillbox at Martins Wood

TR 291405. Standard brick construction square pillbox, unfinished. [Survey details and discussion of type]. (1)

Description from record :
Square pillbox approx 16ft square with overhanging roof slab. Brick-shuttered, 2ft thick walls and 2 embrasures per wall. The type seems to be peculiar to Dover. This example built to base of embrasures and never completed.

Pillbox, brick-shuttered, of common Dover type - square with overhanging roof slab and 2 embrasures per side. Built only to height of embrasure sills and left unfinished. Non-hexagonal pillbox. TR 291405. Standard brick construction square pillbox, unfinished. [Survey details and discussion of type]. At Farthingloe, on footpath in Martin's Wood N of Farthingloe Farm. (2)

<1> Burridge, David, Dovers Square Pillboxes, Page Nos. 6 (Bibliographic reference). SKE6411.

<2> Council for British Archaeology, 2002, Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). SKE32029.