Pillbox Traditional Geocache
The_101_FC: just don't have the time to replace this, so removing it for others to use
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This is my first cache which is located along a public footpath next to an old pillbox. You are looking for a centrifuge tube with an orange cap.
This cache is placed next to a type 22 pillbox that would of covered the footpath from Sutton pools to help protect the back of the nearby Type 28A and was part of the GHQ Red stop line and would have been maned by The First Berkshire (Abingdon) Battalion Home Guard.
The type 22 pillbox is a regular hexagon in plan with an embrasure in five of the sides and an entrance in the other. The embrasures are suitable for rifles or light machine guns. Each wall is about 1.8 m (6 feet) long and it was built to the 'tank-gun proof' standard with walls around 1.0 m (40 inches). The pillbox is part of the GHQ Red Stop Line Red followed the Thames from Reading to Abingdon, then cut across country to Newbridge to avoid the huge Thames loop north to Oxford, continuing south across the Cotswolds to Great Somerford in Wiltshire.
The idea of the stop lines were to block the progress of armoured columns, setting them up for a counter-attack. A stopline would be a continuous anti-tank obstacle, natural if possible, covered by pillboxes and other prepared positions.
The type 22 is the second most common pillbox type with 1,209 recorded as being extant. It is easily confused with the common type 24 which is an irregular hexagon and the less common octagonal.
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