View from WWI Pillbox on Castlandhill
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View from WWI Pillbox on Castlandhill
Image: © Ian Dodds Taken: 13 Mar 2021
The most likely reason these are called pillboxes is also the most boring one! It is probably just a shortening of pillar box, another word for postbox. This is because the narrow slits, properly termed loopholes, through which if required, soldiers would fire their weapons, resemble the slots on postboxes. This one is situated a short distance down the South slope of Castlandhill and didn't have any entrances, blocked up or otherwise, to its base as they sometimes do.
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Image Location
Latitude
56.027289
Longitude
-3.413571