More information : (TA 0485 8930) Site of an 18th-century gun battery, part of the Scarborough Castle complex.
In October-November 1998, the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England carried out an analytical field survey of Scarborough Castle (Parent Record TA 08 NW 35; Event Record 1205090).
The site of the battery is a flat-topped artificial terrace overlooking the North Bay. No earthworks survive which are obviously part of the gun battery constructed here at the end of the 18th century. The terrace was extended when the Castle Holmes were made into a public park at the end of the nineteenth century and several slight earthworks were recorded marking the site of a complex of buildings dating from the Second World War. For further details, see the detailed report held in the NMR archive, which includes versions of the 1:1000 scale plan and extracts from historic maps. The remainder of the archive material is also available from the NMR. (1 and 2)
The Holmes Battery was constructed in 1794 with four guns. (1a)
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