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Monument details

Summary

The artillery store is an 1860s building which may have been converted in the 1890s, perhaps to a Side Arms Store (when part of the bombproof shelter became the RA store). It is located on the eastern side of the Detached Bastion with its entrance, contained in a vertical recessed elevation shared with the entrance to the east gallery, reached down four brick steps and protected by steeply ramped flank walls. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• GUN STORE (Disused, Post Medieval to Modern - 1860 AD? to 1945 AD?)

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Summarised from report:

The artillery store is an 1860s building which may have been converted in the 1890s, perhaps to a Side Arms Store (when part of the bombproof shelter became the RA store). It is located on the eastern side of the Detached bastion with its entrance, contained in a vertical recessed elevation shared with the entrance to the east gallery, reached down four brick steps and protected by steeply ramped flank walls. Originally, an earthen traverse covered the store and the gallery entrance but this was shortened on the north during the changes of the 1890s and subsequently much material has been removed, leaving a flat top surface. The semi-circular vaulted chamber is long at 6.4m and narrow at 1.8m; earth and debris has been heaped into the eastern half. The east wall is rendered externally and has been crudely breached to make a small hole, perhaps a crude embrasure looking along a corresponding trench in the rampart outside, and perhaps an infantry position of the 20th century. (1)

<1> RCHME, 2001, The Western Heights, Dover, Kent. Report No 7: North Centre and Detached Bastions: 19th-century fortifications (Unpublished document). SKE17503.

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