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HER Number:MCO62341
Name:PENDENNIS - C16 traverse

Summary

An Elizabethan traverse bank and ditch running between the main gate of the castle southwards to the sea shown on an engraving dated 1610. Appears once again on drawing thought to date to 1700 surrounded by gardens.

Grid Reference:SW 8222 3185
Parish:Falmouth, Carrick, Cornwall
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Protected Status: None recorded

Other Statuses/Codes: none recorded

Monument Type(s):

  • DITCH (16th Century to Unknown - 1558 AD)

Full description

An Elizabethan traverse bank and ditch running between the main gate of the castle southwards to the sea shown on an engraving dated 1610. Appears once again on drawing thought to date to 1700 surrounded by gardens (1).


<1> Linzey, R, 2000, Fortress Falmouth. An conservation plan for the historic defences of Falmouth Haven Vol II (2000), Site 2.1 (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 2.1.

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

  • ECO455 - Fortress Falmouth

Related records

18709Part of: PENDENNIS - Post Medieval fort (Monument)