So after a couple of recce's we finally got in Garden Battery, and because it so difficult to access this has stop the 'chavs etc' getting in- so the battery in really good condition.
Garden Battery and Earls Battery constructed 1862-63 on the position of the private saluting battery of Mount Edgcombe House. It is a simple granite casemated work for seven 68-pounder guns guns behind iron shutters. Originally there were twenty-one cannon mounted on the site in 1800. The latter were the property of the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe and came from a captured French frigate. Four 12-pounder quick-firing guns replaced the existing armament in 1895; by the First World War it had been reduced to two guns. The battery was disarmed shortly after 1927.
visited with scotty
The bird eye view of the battery
and in we go !!!
View from Western end of battery
View from Eastern end of battery
Group Shot
Gun Mounting
Garden Battery and Earls Battery constructed 1862-63 on the position of the private saluting battery of Mount Edgcombe House. It is a simple granite casemated work for seven 68-pounder guns guns behind iron shutters. Originally there were twenty-one cannon mounted on the site in 1800. The latter were the property of the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe and came from a captured French frigate. Four 12-pounder quick-firing guns replaced the existing armament in 1895; by the First World War it had been reduced to two guns. The battery was disarmed shortly after 1927.
visited with scotty
The bird eye view of the battery
and in we go !!!
View from Western end of battery
View from Eastern end of battery
Group Shot
Gun Mounting
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