MMO1392 - World War Two infantry section post east of Horner Water (Monument)

SS 8932 4851. A Second World War pillbox known as an infantry section post, visible as a structure, was mapped from aerial photographs taken in 1941. Located on the high water line on the shingle of Bossington Beach immediately east of Horner Water in Porlock Bay, about 550 metres north north west of Lower House Farm, the structure consists of two connected covered linear concrete trenches 10 metres long, forming an arrowhead shape, constructed with a substantial flat concrete roof. Square embrasures are located along each wing facing out to sea. To the rear of the structure, an open area may have contained a light anti-aircraft gun. The structure looks similar to the extant infantry section post in Blue Anchor Bay further east along the coast. The structure was still extant in 1958 but was no longer visible in 1979. [1-6] This record was enhanced as part of the National Record of the Historic Environment to Exmoor National Park Historic Environment Record data transfer project. [7]