Cutaway reconstruction illustration depicting Dartmouth Point Battery casemates, magazine and lighting passage at Dartmouth Castle, as it may have appeared in about 1870. The upper floors have been lifted to allow views into the interior spaces.

Date:
circa 1982 - circa 1983
Location:
Dartmouth Castle, Old Battery, Dartmouth, South Hams, Devon
Reference:
IC123/003
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork
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Description

The illustration shows three main guns facing out to sea, with a smaller embrasure in the nearest wall allowing a gun to be fired east across the river. This illustration was reproduced on page 14 of the 2013 English Heritage guidebook for Dartmouth Castle.

Content

This is part of the Volume: IC123 Dartmouth Castle, Devon; within the Series: EHC01/146 English Heritage Reconstruction and Artwork Collection; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(EH):Archive

Rights

Contact Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Illustrator: Holme, Graham

Keywords

Post Medieval Magazine, Post Medieval Gun Emplacement, Post Medieval Battery