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| HER Number: | MCO62462 |
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| Name: | PENDENNIS - C18 meadow |
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Summary
A spring or well is shown on Colonel Christian Lilly's survey of 1715, due west of Carrick Mount Bastion on the spring line of the coastal slope. Lilly records a demiculver in and a saker emplaced to guard the water supply. The position of the spring was acknowledged by a large kink in the Cornish hedge marking the field boundary as the Ordnance field system developed on the headland during the eighteenth century and this may well have served as a rudimentary gun platform. An ancient path heading towards the spring from the hornworks which shows up in the contours of the Ordnance survey of 1891 may indicate that the spring served the outworks during the Civil War.
Protected Status: None recorded
Other Statuses/Codes: none recorded
Monument Type(s):
- MEADOW (18th Century - 1701 AD to 1800 AD)
Full description
A spring or well is shown on Colonel Christian Lilly's survey of 1715, due west of Carrick Mount Bastion on the spring line of the coastal slope. Lilly records a demiculver in and a saker emplaced to guard the water supply. The position of the spring was acknowledged by a large kink in the Cornish hedge marking the field boundary as the Ordnance field system developed on the headland during the eighteenth century and this may well have served as a rudimentary gun platform. An ancient path heading towards the spring from the hornworks which shows up in the contours of the Ordnance survey of 1891 may indicate that the spring served the outworks during the Civil War.
During British Petroleum's reclamation of the shore fronting Pump Meadow to house oil storage bunkers, spring water was harnessed in a small concrete pump house from where it was pumped to a fire fighting reservoir constructed near the site of the old subterranean minefield test room to the north. This arrangement is still in operation (1).
<1> Linzey, R, 2000, Fortress Falmouth. An conservation plan for the historic defences of Falmouth Haven Vol II (2000), site U4 (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 U4. |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events
- ECO455 - Fortress Falmouth
Related records
| 18709 | Part of: PENDENNIS - Post Medieval fort (Monument) |
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