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Defended Building, Angle

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NPRN270510
Map ReferenceSM80SE
Grid ReferenceSM8669001950
Unitary (Local) AuthorityPembrokeshire
Old CountyPembrokeshire
CommunityAngle
Type Of SiteDEFENDED BUILDING
PeriodPost Medieval
Description
Truncated, two-storey, circular stone tower. The building is a former windmill (nprn 33259), adapted as a defence post with inserted concrete floor and five wide splayed concrete embrasures fitted with Turnbull mountings at 1st floor level. Steel rungs set in wall allow access to hatch in floor. During the First World War it probably served as a machine gun post. It was probably an observation post during the Napoleonic Wars [Second World War use not stated]. External diameter 6.09m, walls 1.25m thick, 3.6m high.

Edit - 2003.02.19/RCAHMW/TJP
Record derived from Defence of Britain Project (Record Number 11345)