Laboratory Battery
- Date:
- 30 Aug 1999
- Location:
- Laboratory Battery, Weston Super Mare, North Somerset, Somerset
- Reference:
- IOE01/00048/04
- Type:
- Photograph (Digital)
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Description
This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
STEEPHOLM ISLAND 1.
5121 Laboratory Battery ST 36 SW 1/81 II 2.
1866-1868, built as part of the Palmerston forts ["follies"]. Double battery with 2 barbettes. Inside a semi-circular parapet wall of squared dressed rubble. Outer ramp of earth and stone. Each pit has racer cannon pivot (remains of Geo III cannon) and displaced 7 ton 7 inch cannon of 1860's. Two underground ammunition chambers at rear: dressed limestone exterior: interior brick barrel vaulted roof. See Barret, J.M. "Maritime Forts in the Bristol Channel".
Listing NGR: ST2307960793
Content
This is part of the Series: IOE\Mair_Robert IOE Records for Mair, Robert; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
Rights
Copyright IoE Mr Robert Mair. Source Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
People & Organisations
Photographer: Mair, Robert
Rights Holder: Mair, Robert
Keywords
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