Monument record BAW 178 - World War II type 22 pillbox, eroded into the sea

East Lane, Bawdsey. Type 22 pillbox. Single-storey regular hexagonal plan. Flat concrete roof; doorway in NW wall. 2 embrasures fitted with Turnbull mountings. Formerly accessed by a 'U' plan trench and enclosed by a square barbed wire enclosure (S1).
Probably dupicate DOB entry: Possible type 27 pillbox, part made of concrete blocks. At top of beach, S of Bawdsey (S2).

2014: A survey of WW2 heritage at risk on the suffolk coast recorded that the pillbox is no longer in situ and was lying inverted in the beach at or just below the water line having apparently fallen off the cliff edge due to erosion. (S3)