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Summary - not yet available

Protected Status: None recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Defence of Britain Project (1995-2003): AH185
• National Mapping Programme (Morph No.): 95/10/1&2
• OS No. (OS Quarter-sheet and OS No.): SW97NW (M)2
• Primary Record No. (1985-2009): 26376
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)
• SMR No. (OS Quarter-sheet and SMR No.): SW97NW 38

Monument Type(s):

• BATTERY (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• GUN EMPLACEMENT (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Full description

Gun point is marked on current OS maps (b2). A battery is said locally to have been sited here in Napoleonic times but a site visit revealed that the present features are those of the Padstow Volunteer Coastal Artillery Battery of the 1860s and several Second World War emplacements (h1). WW2 features, including gun platforms and a concrete building are visible on air photographs (p1-4). The site is recorded as AH 185 in the Defence of Britain project.

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Site history:
1: 1972. KING, AN/OS
2: 1997/8. HARVEY, A /DOB
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<1> Ordnance Survey, 1803-9, OS Surveyor's Drawing 2 Inch Map (Cartographic materials). SCO4053.

RAF, 1946, 106G/1498/4345 (Photographic Record). SCO9692.

RAF, 1950, 541/425/3025&6 (Photographic Record). SCO12954.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1970s, 1:10,000 OS Map (Cartographic materials). SCO4045.

OSP, 1971, 71306/241 (Photographic Record). SCO15231.

CAU, 1992, F37/22 (Photographic Record). SCO18153.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

Related records: none recorded

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