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HER Number:MCO62420
Name:PENDENNIS - C19 drying posts

Summary

To the rear of the bastion was a grid of seven drying posts where washing could be hung out to dry, suggesting that the privy with its huge water tank beside it may also have been used as a laundry.

Grid Reference:SW 8232 3185
Parish:Falmouth, Carrick, Cornwall
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Protected Status: None recorded

Other Statuses/Codes: none recorded

Monument Type(s):

Full description

To the rear of the bastion was a grid of seven drying posts where washing could be hung out to dry, suggesting that the privy with its huge water tank beside it may also have been used as a laundry (1).


<1> Linzey, R, 2000, Fortress Falmouth. An conservation plan for the historic defences of Falmouth Haven Vol II (2000), site R1.5 (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 R1.5.

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

  • ECO455 - Fortress Falmouth

Related records

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