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Summary

A redan or small gun platform behind an earth and stone bank associated with the C17 breastwork around the Garrison. Redan no. 3.

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

• National Monuments Record: SV 80 NE 119
• National Record of the Historic Environment to Historic Environment Records data transfer
• National Record of the Historic Environment: MCO31846
• OS No. (OS Quarter-sheet and OS No.): SV80NE SV81SE
• Primary Record No. (1985-2009): 7904.06

Monument Type(s):

• BASTION OUTWORK (17th Century to 18th Century - 1640 AD to 1715 AD)

Full description

A redan or small gun platform behind an earth and stone bank associated with the C17 breastwork around the Garrison (7904.03), partially or wholly destroyed by coastal erosion, was situated at approximately this location south of an C18 stone built redan (7906.22). No platform at this site appears on the 1655 map (b1) but an angled redan is shown on the 1742 plan (b3). In 1990 slight traces of an earthwork with tumbled stone were noted in the cliff edge (h1). The monument was included in the Schedule on 19/3/1998.
(b10) - Parkes, C, 1994, Pers Comm, ,

This site was visited in 2005-06, and its condition was assessed and recorded (10), the site was revisited in 2008-10 when it was suggested that any surviving remains had probably been destroyed by gardening (11, 12).
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Site history:
1: 1990. JOHNSON, N/CAU
2: 1978. NJA/OS
3: 1988. WATERS, A/CAU
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<1> UNKNOWN, 1655, A MAP OF THE HEW HILL THE CHEIFFE FFORTIFICATIONS, DD GO 575 (Unedited Source). SCO5445.

<2> Lilly, C, 1715, A Plan of the Hugh (Unpublished document). SCO3869.

<3> UNKNOWN, 1742, A PLAN OF HUGH FORT ALIAS THE STAR CASTLE (Unedited Source). SCO5544.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1880s, 1st Edition 1:2500 Map (Cartographic materials). SCO4048.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 1900s, 2nd Edition 1:2500 Map (Cartographic materials). SCO4050.

<6> O'Neil, BH St J, 1961, Isles of Scilly MOW Guide, 31-32, 36 (Bibliographic reference). SCO4042.

<7> Adams, F & P, 1984, Star Castle and its Garrison, 7 (Bibliographic reference). SCO2717.

<8> Saunders, A, 1989, Fortress Britain, 79-80 (Bibliographic reference). SCO4317.

<9> RATCLIFFE, J & PARKES, C, 1990, FIELDWORK IN THE ISLES OF SCILLY, MARCH 1990, EARLY BATTERIES, ST MARY'S (Unedited Source). SCO8949.

<10> Johns, C & Fletcher, M, 2010, The Garrison, St Mary's Isles of Scilly - Conservation Plan, Site 23 (Cornwall Event Report). SCO23708.

<11> Bowden, M, 2011, Isles of Scilly Military Defences, 1540-1951: Earthwork Sites and Minor Features, 14 (Cornwall Event Report). SCO25530.

<12> Bowden, M and Brodie, A, 2011, Defending Scilly (Bibliographic reference). SCO29932.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• ECO3128 - Garrison Walls, Isles of Scilly, conservation plan
• ECO3819 - Isles of Scilly Military Defences, 1540-1951 (Ref: RDRS 56-2011)

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