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Summary

A sallyport consisting of a cobbled gateway below granite lintels, on the west side of the mid-C18 wall around the south half of the Garrison.

Protected Status

• Listed Building (I) 62521: OUTER WALLS AND GATEWAY
• 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 125
• National Record of the Historic Environment to Historic Environment Records data transfer
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1445877
• Primary Record No. (1985-2009): 7906.19
• SMR No. (OS Quarter-sheet and SMR No.): SV80NE 31

Monument Type(s):

• POSTERN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

A sallyport consisting of a cobbled gateway below granite lintels, one of two openings (7906.20) on the west side of the mid-C18 wall around the south half of the Garrison (7906.18), is situated immediately north west of Woolpack battery (7906.27). The site is a Listed Building, Grade I and is Scheduled (h1). A 1742 map shows a different plan for this section of the Garrison walls (b1). The sallyport is not recorded on the 1746 and 1750 plans (b2, b3) but would have been built at least by the time of the latter, which also omits to show the earlier sallyports (7906.06 - 7906.08) on the Garrison neck (b9). Troutbeck's 1796 survey maintains a sallyport on the west side of the Woolpack battery (b4) the 1888 and 1907 OS maps record the track joining gateway to clifftop path outside (b6, b7), and the sallyport itself appears on the 1981 edition (b8). The site was visited in 1990 (h2). Access was found to be down two steps into a granite edged cobbled well inside the gateway, with two further steps leading outside. The granite lintel was a rebate, and grooves and traces of metal fixings indicate gates at both sides of the sallyport. The monument is included in the Schedule.
(b9) - Parkes, C, 1994, Pers Comm, ,

Visited in 1995; described as above (9).

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Site history:
1: 1978. NJA/OS
2: 1990. JOHNSON, N/CAU
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National Monument Record, The Garrison Survey, St. Mary's, Isle of Scilly (Survey). SCO29940.

<1> UNKNOWN, 1742, A PLAN OF HUGH FORT ALIAS THE STAR CASTLE (Unedited Source). SCO5544.

<2> UNKNOWN, 1746, A PLAN OF THE HUGH FORT (Unedited Source). SCO5552.

<3> Tovey, A, 1750, A Plan of the Peninsula and Fortifications on St Mary's (Bibliographic reference). SCO4950.

<4> Troutbeck, J, 1796, Survey of the Ancient and Present State of the Scilly Islands, 45 (Bibliographic reference). SCO4965.

<5> Birch, JF, 1974, Plan of the Garrison on the Island of Saint Mary, Scilly (Bibliographic reference). SCO2851.

<6> Ordnance Survey, 1880s, 1st Edition 1:2500 Map (Cartographic materials). SCO4048.

<7> Ordnance Survey, 1900s, 2nd Edition 1:2500 Map (Cartographic materials). SCO4050.

<8> Ordnance Survey, 1970s, 1:10,000 OS Map (Cartographic materials). SCO4045.

<9> Field Investigator's Comments, MPPA/Hooley, D. 1995. (Survey). SCO29739.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• ECO6309 - The Garrison, St. Mary's: Survey

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