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Mystery fort and mini tunnel [????- ]

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Submitted by H Lo on Wed, 2021-03-17 12:23
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Ruin

The marker is for the fort/pillbox, whereas the mini tunnel is just below it.

It's composed of a mini tunnel, a part of wall which we often seen at pillboxes, then comes two thick walls that look like it's been built above a boulder at one end, and some bricks on the other end.

Not sure to whom do these ruins belong to, although the mini tunnel looks a bit like the one at PB411.

There are some indents on one of the thick walls, with a wide patterned band along the top of the two walls, I haven't seen this type of design before.

IMG_20210316_LammaYuenKokPB.jpg
IMG_20210316_LammaYuenKokPB.jpg, by H.Lo
IMG_20210316_LammaYuenKokPB.jpg
IMG_20210316_LammaYuenKokPB.jpg, by H.Lo
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pillbox
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Submitted by Lewis on Wed, 2021-03-17 12:32.

This is probably a pillbox that was left behind during construction. This pillbox is similar to Mainland Pillboxes.

Submitted by H Lo on Wed, 2021-03-17 12:49.

So it's a British one?

Is there any number assigned to it?

Submitted by Michael_Lam on Sat, 2021-03-20 19:23.

The photo of the pillbox.

Lamma Island pillbox

mini tunnel

main area

 

Submitted by Lewis on Tue, 2021-04-27 20:36.

Sorry for the late response. This pillbox was probably not numbered due to it not being a "complete" pillbox. What I mean is that this pillbox was built over a Pre-colonial building due to the  Chinese style horizontal carvings on the rocks. The engineers of the pillbox just built the pillbox over the ruins and dug a tunnel right through the walls of the ruins. During the Battle of Hong Kong, this pillbox's crew probably withdrew to Aberdeen. Another piece of information that I will add is that the pillbox was probably leveled by the Aberdeen and Jubilee batteries which were trying to prevent the Japanese's Navy's amphibous invasion of Lamma Island. On a side note, the tunnel leading to the pillbox looks a little like a drainage tunnel and if this structure was a pillbox, then there wouldn't be any Vickers machine gun mounts, since the pillboxes without Vickers guns were usually not included in the defence maps.

 

Submitted by H Lo on Thu, 2021-04-29 01:32.

Thanks for the extra info, but the tunnel isn't a small one, I could stand inside without having to bend much, so it didn't seem like a drainage one to me. I was wondering if it's connecting the one with the inscription bands and the ruin of the pillbox wall.