Camel Island, pillbox

HER Number

5337

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Camel Island, pillbox

Place

Marsden

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Defence

Site Type: Broad

Fortification

Site Type: Specific

Pillbox

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Second World War 1939 to 1945

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

Pillbox. Set in the cliff face behind Camel Island is a pill box. The roof is 1 metres below the cliff top. Built of concrete with corrugated iron shuttering. A cube 2.5 metres long, 2.9 metres wide and 2 metres high. A flight of steps, eight of which remain, are butted against the north side. They give access to the concrete roof and beyond to the cliff top. Erosion is beginning to undermine the structure. The interior has a wall alongside the entrance. There are two small apertures, 10cm x 10cm at roof level, one looking out onto Marsden Grotto, the other over the cliff. LOCAL LIST

Easting

439730

Northing

565610

Grid Reference

NZ439730565610

Sources

<< HER 5337 >> A. Rudd, of Wartime Defences in Tyne and Wear - typed list; The Arbeia Society, 2004, Archaeological Survey of the coast from South Shields to Whitburn; SOUTH TYNESIDE LOCAL LIST REVIEW 2011: REFERENCE NUMBER: LSHA/70/SS