Description

MARAZION ST MICHAEL'S MOUNT SW 53 SW

1/62 The Sentry Box

GV II*

Defensive wall with sentry box. C15. Battered granite rubble wall built over rocky outcrop. Plan: thick retaining wall with sentry box at its north end and gateway at its south end. The wall is pierced by 3 embrasures splayed on both faces. The sentry box is just large enough inside for a man to stand and is roofed with corbelled granite slabs sloping down under a ridge slab. Small lookout opening to the 3 outer sides and doorway to the inner (west) side. The rocky outcrop within is the former St Michael's Chair, later to be resited on the Church tower.

Listing NGR: SW5142629878

External Links

• Wikidata Q17534988

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