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HER Number:MCO62355
Name:PENDENNIS - C16 curtain

Summary

Very little change is evident on curtain No. 2 between Norden's plan of 1600 and the detailed Ordnance Survey of 1866 - the curtain retaining a simple shoulder height parapet with firing step along its inside edge although the parapet is almost certainly that erected under Colonel Lilly in the 1730s.

Grid Reference:SW 8241 3195
Parish:Falmouth, Carrick, Cornwall
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Protected Status: None recorded

Other Statuses/Codes: none recorded

Monument Type(s):

Full description

Very little change is evident on curtain No. 2 between Norden's plan of 1600 and the detailed Ordnance Survey of 1866 - the curtain retaining a simple shoulder height parapet with firing step along its inside edge although the parapet is almost certainly that erected under Colonel Lilly in the 1730s (1).


<1> Linzey, R, 2000, Fortress Falmouth. An conservation plan for the historic defences of Falmouth Haven Vol II (2000), site H1.1 (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 H1.1.

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

  • ECO455 - Fortress Falmouth

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