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Summary

The narrow eroding low cliff outside the C18 curtain and batteries was enclosed probably in the earlier C19 to form a strip of small plots or gardens.

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 15434: POST-MEDIEVAL BREASTWORK, CURTAIN WALL AND ASSOCIATED DEFENSIVE STRUCTURES ON THE PERIPHERY OF THE GARRISON, ST MARY'S

Other References/Statuses

• Primary Record No. (1985-2009): 7907.01

Monument Type(s):

• GARDEN (19th Century - 1801 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

The narrow eroding low cliff along the north coast of the Garrison, outside the C18 curtain and batteries, from King Charles battery to Well battery (7906.01), was enclosed probably in the earlier C19 to form a strip of small plots or gardens. The site of the C17 platform preceeding King Charles battery is at the western end of the strip (7904.20); and that of another C17 battery, Barn Platform, is towards its eastern end (7904.22). Similar plots on the south coasts of the Garrison are of C18 origin (7905.10). An 1834 plan shows five plots between King Charles battery (7906.02) and Store House battery (7906.03), and another five between here and Well battery (7906.09). Most are marked with an 'X' to indicate 'occupied by coastguard' (b1). On the 1888 OS map, the western plots are subdivided to form 18 small gardens (b2). Some of these are not shown on the 1907 OS map (b3); in 1981 only four are marked between Store House and Well batteries (b4). The Adams note that invalid pensioners and townspeople cultivated many plots outside the lines in the 1820s and 1830s (b5). These gardens may originally have been laid out for the use of the invalid gunners quartered at Wellford (7907.02) in the earlier C19 (b6). The monument is included in the Schedule.
(b6) - Parkes, C, 1994, Pers Comm, ,

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Site history:
1: 1958. SAUNDERS, A/IAM
2: 1978. NJA/OS
3: 1984. UNKNOWN/MSC-ICS
4: 1988. WATERS, A/CAU
5: 1990. JOHNSON, N/CAU
6: 1991. UNKNOWN/EH
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<1> Birch, JF, 1974, Plan of the Garrison on the Island of Saint Mary, Scilly (Bibliographic reference). SCO2851.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1880s, 1st Edition 1:2500 Map (Cartographic materials). SCO4048.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1900s, 2nd Edition 1:2500 Map (Cartographic materials). SCO4050.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1970s, 1:10,000 OS Map (Cartographic materials). SCO4045.

<5> Adams, F & P, 1984, Star Castle and its Garrison, 74 (Bibliographic reference). SCO2717.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• ECO1300 - Isles of Scilly: Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment, 2003
• ECO3128 - Garrison Walls, Isles of Scilly, conservation plan

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