Archaeology Notes

Event ID 714354

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT27SE 1.10 25223 73457.

Half Moon Bastion (NR).

OS 1/2500 plan, (1932); OS 1/1250 plan, (1947).

The Half Moon Battery or "Great Half Bastion Round" built by Regent Morton, stands on a platform partly founded on the ruins of David's Tower and partly on the old water tank vaults. It is girded by a massive curved wall. A beacon basket stands on the cope of the Half Moon parapet.

J S Richardson and M Wood 1948.

Half-Moon Battery. Built in 1574. Parapet and gun-loops last rebuilt

in 18th century. (RCAHMS 1951).

Visited by OS(JLD) 22 October 1953.

(Centred at NT 2521 7346) No additional remarks.

Visited by OS(JLD) 29 December 1953.

As described in previous field report

Visited by OS(SFS) 10 November 1975.