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| HER Number: | MCO62492 |
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| Name: | PENDENNIS - C16 platform |
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Summary
A fort enclosing a sea battery to the north-east of the blockhouse is shown on Norden's map of 1600. Lilly's survey of 1715 is the first to specifically identify a battery at the southern seaboard, identified as 'Shepherd's Cove Platform'.
Protected Status: None recorded
Other Statuses/Codes: none recorded
Monument Type(s):
- PLATFORM (16th Century to Unknown - 1600 AD)
Full description
A fort enclosing a sea battery to the north-east of the blockhouse is shown on Norden's map of 1600. Lilly's survey of 1715 is the first to specifically identify a battery at the southern seaboard, identified as 'Shepherd's Cove Platform'. It is recorded that it mounted from east to west: a demi-culverin; a whole culverin and a 12-pdr. By 1793 the feature had disappeared from Ordnance plans. No obvious trace of a platform remains (1).
<1> Linzey, R, 2000, Fortress Falmouth. An conservation plan for the historic defences of Falmouth Haven Vol II (2000), site V2.5 (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 V2.5. |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events
- ECO455 - Fortress Falmouth
Related records
| 18709 | Part of: PENDENNIS - Post Medieval fort (Monument) |
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