More information : TA 2092 4799. `Eared' pillbox. (for full description see TA 15 SE 35) This `eared' type pillbox was positioned on the beach at the seafront in Hornsea. It was intended to provide flanking fire as part of the anti-landing defences of the town. The site was plotted from aerial photographs by the Fortress Studies Group dated 1945, they also visited the site as part of the Holderness Survey in 1992, and found the site to be totally destroyed. (1-1a)
The monument is also visible as an upstanding structure on air photographs examined as part of the Rapid Coastal Assessment Survey of the Yorkshire and Humber Estuary.Due to coastal erosion the monument no longer survives in situ. (1a)
`Eared¿ type pillbox positioned on the beach at the seafront in Hornsea. It was intended to provide flanking fire as part of the anti-landing defences of the town. Destroyed by 1992. (2) |