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Monument Number 30573
Hob Uid: 30573
Location : Isle Of Man Glenfaba Peel
Grid Ref : SC2490084300
Summary : The site of a horseshoe-shaped gun battery built on the water's edge at the east end of Peel Bay between 1795-1797. This battery replaced one destroyed by a storm in 1793. A small piece of 15th or early 16th century cannon was found below the low watermark in this area in 1863 and may indicate an even earlier battery existed on the site.
More information : A horseshoe-shaped gun battery was built on the water's edge at the east end of Peel Bay between 1795-1797, as shown on a Warwick Smith painting of 1795 (in the Manx Museum: 1, Plate VII: siting deduced from painting to SC 249 843: 2). The battery was built to replace one destroyed by a storm in 1793. A 16th century battery on or near the site may well have been destroyed in the same way. A small piece of 15th or early 16th century cannon was found below low watermark in this area in 1863. (1b) (1 - 2)

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Source details : J Manx Mus 7 No 83 1967 56-7 (R A Curphey)
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Source Number : 1a
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Source details : Atholl Papers X/22 (3rd) - 1
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Source Number : 1b
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Source details : Mona's Herald (newspaper) 11 May 1864
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Source Number : 2
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Source details : Ibid No 84 1968 Plate VII opp 89
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : C15/early C16
Monument End Date : 1532
Monument Start Date : 1400
Monument Type : Battery
Evidence : Conjectural Evidence, Find

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Destroyed 1793
Monument End Date : 1793
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Monument Type : Battery
Evidence : Documentary Evidence

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Rebuilt 1795-97
Monument End Date : 1797
Monument Start Date : 1795
Monument Type : Battery
Evidence : Documentary Evidence

Components and Objects:

Period : Medieval
Component Monument Type : Battery
Object Type : CANNON
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SC 28 SW 54
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Monument Number 30573