A Pickett-Hamilton Fort Excavated
Site Name: Portsmouth , Old City Airport Site Type: Defence > Pickett-Hamilton Retractable Pillbox NGR: SU 6732-0390 Location: […]
Rescue Archaeology
Basingstoke Canal Defences
Anti-tank Cylinder and Mine Socket Excavation Blacksmith’s Bridge, Dogmersfield, Hampshire. During the winter months of late 2007 and […]
Basingstoke Canal Type 26/Stent Prefab Rescue
Prefab Type 26 Pillbox 52B, Lock 15, Brookwood Bridge, Surrey. SU943569 Back in the spring a meeting […]
Beal Farm Pillbox Restorations
Following an appeal for help on the (old) Pillbox Study Group forum from Paul Thompson, four of us […]
Crookham Shellproof ‘Makeover’
Study & ‘Makeover’ Of A Shellproof Pillbox The pillbox is on private land near to the GHQ line at […]
Dragons Teeth Cleaning
Early in January 2008 I completed a relatively easy task exposing a fine collection of dragons teeth that had become virtually hidden […]
Dug in Type 24 Rescue
Working on Ewshots second Type 24 project During the late spring of 2010 the survey and rescue archaeology on […]
Ewshot & Operation Cromwell Part 1
The rescue & recording of two Vickers gun emplacements A sunny October morning in 2009 saw well […]
Ewshot & Operation Cromwell Part 2
February 2010, A type 24 emerges from the undergrowth. On a cold and wet February day a keen […]
Ewshot Pillbox Restoration September 2013.
Just over three years ago PSG members completed the Rescue Archaeology on six of the 18 pillboxes that […]
Hampshire 8-Sided Pillbox
Re-Discovered, A Hampshire 8 Sided Pillbox. A forgotten and unusual pillbox re-appeared again late October 2008 when myself, […]
Heifer Law Zero Station
Survey Report Introduction On 29th May 2010, Colin Anderson and Ian Hall carried out a survey of the […]
Maiden Newton Pillbox Rescue
As part of the Maiden Newton at War Weekend members of the Pillbox Study Group carried out a […]
Netley Park Type 24 Rescue
Netley Park House, North Downs, Shere. GHQ Line B Rescue Archaeology Ngr TQ079486 At the end of January […]
Operation ‘Cloudburst’
A very clean and intact type 22 saw daylight again on 1st June 2010. The Pillbox had lain […]
Operation ‘Family Affair’
Restoration Of The Tulk‘s Hill Observation Pillbox When you have been married to a ‘Pillbox Spotter’ for as […]
Operation ‘Team Time Trench’
Restoration Of The ‘Dorset Round Type’ One-Off Design Pillbox At Sy 7600-9060 Initial Thoughts Whilst travelling around the Dorset countryside in […]
Recovery Of A ‘Bison’ Mobile Pillbox
By The Lincolnshire Aircraft Recovery Group The remains of the Bison were found at Sleaford where it had […]
Rescuing a type 22 (S0008438) at Elstow.
As soon as I saw this almost ruin I just knew it had to be saved, not only […]
River Whitewater Shellproof Pillbox Rescue Archaeology
Revealed, a long hidden Hampshire Pillbox. On a bitterly cold day during January 2007, Graham Matthews and I […]
Shellproof FW3/24 Rescue Archaeology
March 2008 saw myself and PSG member Tim Burt meet up to work on an overgrown Type […]
Spigot Mortar Emplacement Rescue Archaeology
Aldershot Command Spigot Mortar Base. Black Bridge, Hook, Hampshire. SU718537 This project had taken several years to come […]
The Rescue of a Unique GHQ Line A Pillbox, Basingstoke ...
The most unusual and unique pillbox on the Basingstoke Canal is undoubtedly the tall variant built into the […]
Vickers Emplacement ‘Make Over’
I had been given permission by the landowner to carry out a study on the Vickers machine gun […]