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Mortared stonework blockhouses were considered preferable to the concrete ones as less cement was used (90 casks for stonework and 160 for concrete), a harder face and neater appearance were achieved, and the quality of the work could be more easily checked. Of the fourteen out of eighteen blockhouses between Wellington and Richmond Road (Merriman) which the author has been able to inspect, five (one at Merriman [NC], two at Krom River [WC], one at Laingsburg [WCJ and one at De Wet [WC]) were built of concrete and two of these (Krom River North and De Wet), which were located near to a river, have collapsed. The concrete blockhouses were possibly constructed in areas which had no natural stone, or they may have been experimental. Stone for masonry blockhouses was generally quarried on site, but could also have been transported by train for those blockhouses situated near to a railway line. Other patterns of masonry blockhouse examined were all built of mortared stonework.
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