"gun pit" meaning in English

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          "text": "On one of the preliminary evenings the new Colonel, with his habitual bad luck, sent forward from C Camp an officer […] to patrol the land over which our assault was intended, with a special eye to the enemy's concern with some ancient gunpits there.",
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