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Coast Artillery Battery

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Coastal Battery

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1993 Coastal Battery. Two concrete emplacements with holdfasts for 4-inch guns in open mounts. To the rear are rock-cut horseshoe shaped trenches leading to the semi-underground magazine. Within one magazine some WWII graffiti survives scratched on to the walls. 07/1997 Document records give the armament of Hoxa as: 2 x 6in guns and 2 x coast artillery search lights.

On 7 April 1941 was manned by 208 Bty of 533 Reg Coast Artillery. By 10 November 1943 the battery was under care and maintenance. See reference s.

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Type COAST ARTILLERY BATTERY
Status Extant
Condition Extant but condition unknown
Source Defence of Britain Archive
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Coast Artillery Battery Situated some 30m inland from the cliff-edge and 300m NW of the later WWII battery, Hoxa Head. Coastal Battery Unknown Extant but condition unknown BunkerAtlas historical bunker military heritage