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| HER Number: | MCO62334 |
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| Name: | PENDENNIS - C19 shot yard |
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Summary
A shot yard, close to the new magazine, is delineated on plans from 1811 until 1828.
Protected Status: None recorded
Other Statuses/Codes: none recorded
Monument Type(s):
Full description
A shot yard, close to the new magazine, is delineated on plans from 1811 until 1828.
The yard was probably built to store the vast amaount of shot which Pendennis Castle as an Odrnance Depot would have housed during the Napoleonic Wars. Within, round shot and other projectiles would have been stored and maintained in vast pyramids, constructed inside low brass or iron kerbs called 'shot monkeys' (1).
<1> Linzey, R, 2000, Fortress Falmouth. An conservation plan for the historic defences of Falmouth Haven Vol II (2000), site E9 (Cornwall Event Report). SCO1563.
Sources / Further Reading
| [1] | SCO1563 - Cornwall Event Report: Linzey, R. 2000. Fortress Falmouth. An conservation plan for the historic defences of Falmouth Haven Vol II (2000). site E9. |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events
- ECO455 - Fortress Falmouth
Related records
| 18709 | Part of: PENDENNIS - Post Medieval fort (Monument) |
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