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| HER Number: | 7909.02 |
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| Name: | THE GARRISON - Modern barbed wire obstruction |
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Summary
Documentation of the removal of barbed wire entanglements from the Garrison in August 1946.
Protected Status: None recorded
Other References/Statuses
- Primary Record No. (1985-2009): 7909.02
Monument Type(s):
Full description
A journal made in August 1946 describes the removal from the Garrison of barbed wire entanglements (b1). There is discussion of likely dumps, including a "small quarry on Garrison", "a deep walled pit of about 8 feet diameter", "one of the smaller below surface stores on the Garrison" (7908.14), as the crusher and roller could not be brought through the Garrison gate. There is also a tantalisingly vague list of sites of the entanglements of the Garrison: "along the lower path from flagpole 700x coiled, with pickets", "in wood and leading downslope 150x, 3 coil", "parallel to lower path and upper and lower slopes 2950x double apron, part coil", "Woolpack battery 290 x 2 rows of 3 coil" (b1).
<1> OSBORNE, JP, 1990, SCILLONIAN WAR DIARY, 1939-1945, VOL 3, APP A, D (Unedited Source). SCO8939.
Sources / Further Reading
| [1] | SCO8939 - Unedited Source: OSBORNE, JP. 1990. SCILLONIAN WAR DIARY, 1939-1945. VOL 3, APP A, D. |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events
- ECO3128 - Garrison Walls, Isles of Scilly, conservation plan
Related records
| 7900 | Part of: THE GARRISON - Post Medieval fortification (Monument) |
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