Stop Line Micro Traditional Cache
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From the interweb:
"A number of stop lines were built in Wales. Nine formed part of the main Western Command stop line system, as developed in the summer of 1940. Three crossed the Welsh/English border and eleven used major rivers as their backbone. They were intended to protect the North Welsh approaches to Liverpool and the Northwest, and to add depth to the defences covering Birmingham and the industrial Midlands. A further objective was to protect the South Wales coal fields and industrial belt. The threat was from the Republic of Ireland (or Eire as it was then known). The possibility of the Germans using Eire as a stepping stone to Britain greatly worried the British.
Beaches in Wales, although not of the top priority, were defended with concrete obstacles, anti-aircraft poles and wire obstacles. From the records, a total of 27 beaches were supplied with such defences. Nodal points in Wales appear to have been limited, with a total of 30 identified from the general references in the sources used. Geographically they are limited to Flintshire, Denbighshire, Wrexham, Conwy, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire."
(This one is in Carmarthenshire though?!)
From Wikipedia:
"Dug-in guard posts, normally equipped with loopholes through which to fire weapons, made from concrete are also known as "pillboxes". The originally jocular name arose from their perceived similarity to the cylindrical boxes in which medical pills were once sold.[2] They are in effect a trench firing step hardened to protect against small-arms fire and grenades and raised to improve the field of fire.
Their use seems to have developed during the period of the First World War when defence in depth using the Machine Gun Corps was being perfected. However, most of those seen in Britain, having been left over from the 1940 invasion scare, are designed for use by riflemen rather than for machine gunners. The concrete nature of pillboxes means that they are a feature of prepared positions. They were probably first used in the Hindenburg Line. This is likely to have been the time when they acquired their incongruous English name. The Oxford English Dictionary's earliest record of the use of the word pillbox in connection with a defensive post is from 13 September 1917, after the German withdrawal onto the Hindenburg Line.
Pillboxes are often camouflaged in order to conceal their location and to maximize the element of surprise. They may be part of a trench system, form an interlocking line of defence with other pillboxes by providing covering fire to each other (defence in depth), or they may be placed to guard strategic structures such as bridges and jetties.
Pillboxes for the Czechoslovak border fortifications were built before WWII in Czechoslovakia in defence against the German invasion of Czechoslovakia. None of these were actually used against its intended enemy, since the German military met no resistance when invading the country because it was effectively forced to capitulate as a result of Allies annexing the country's border areas and handing them to Germany, but some were used against the liberating Russian armies. The Japanese also made use of pillboxes in their fortifications of Iwo Jima."
This is a 35mm film pot, you won't have to go inside to find it.
When placing this cache, I parked across the road and managed to get most of the car on the grass verge, causing no issue to passing traffic.
Although not the busiest of roads, I did get stared at by everyone that drove by so expect the same! Try to look like a tourist maybe!
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