Architecture Notes

Event ID 868311

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NT28SE 5.28 29566 82231 to 29565 82247

An 83m long section of fire trench is situated immediately S of No.3 Fort and S 6-inch gun battery. Part of the length is covered with thick wooden planks and the SW part has wooden revetting held by metal stanchions. At NT 29586 82246 at the change in angle of the trench is a circular picket post and at this point the trench also has a firing step.

The preFirst World War Ordnance Survey plan of the Island depicts the fire trench and picket post with 'wire entanglements' to the S and SE. Both this plan and the WO plan (RCAHMS MS 879/83) show that the trench continues around the W side of A Group battery (NT28SE 5.03) to link with the W end of the northern rock cut ditch (Fort No.3, NT28SE 1.03) at a point formerly a drawbridge providing access to the Fort.

Visited by RCAHMS (DE, AL), 25 February, 4 and 5 March 2009.