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At Scarva, Banridge, Northern Ireland this hexagonal pillbox with 2 machine gun embrasures at front left and right. Both embrasures are stepped on the outside and have a smaller cast iron embrasure designed to support the Turnbull Mount for the Vickers .303 MG. There are no shutters. On the inside of each embrasure is a stepped machine gun platform in concrete, to the right of which is a square recess, probably for ammunition or water coolant. Access to the pillbox is by a full sized doorway at the rear covered by a blast wall. There is no sign of a fixed door. The pillbox is situated at the entrance to private land and clearly once dominated the road junction; unfortunately the gate has been rebuilt and now obscures the front left embrasure. The pillbox backs onto a brick wall that enabled the builders to dispense with a blast wall.J 0719 4289 (Photo Aubrey Dale)
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