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So yeah essentially that's it a pillbox is literally just a very simple structure often built a concrete

well in the UK they're all built concrete though sometimes they use brick as

an outer shut ring and that is literally the function is to house a series of

troops or a number of troops armed with specific weapon systems

and allow them to shoot out from the safety of the pill box under relative

relative safety and allow them to kill the enemy without getting killed themselves

and that is the primary function of a pill box,

you know.

And yeah, keeping it as simple as possible,

that is literally it.

So housing soldiers, housing their weapons and allowing them to shoot at the enemy is the primary function of a pillbox. Tell us a bit about getting shot

themselves is the primary function of a pillbox. Tell us a bit about your work

regarding pillboxes. I'm an archaeologist so I you know a lot of people are involved in this the

slight study of wartime stuff for generally historians and stuff but I'm an archaeologist so I work with

physical remains left by people in the past and we use that to kind of build up a picture of past civilizations, past activity by humans.

And this is where tying this in with surviving wartime defences

has really grabbed my attention and something I've worked on for about 20 years now.

I've just turned 38 and I started when I was 17.

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