Location: Dartmouth Castle, Devon.
Photographer: Robert Hesketh
Keywords: Tourist Historic Buildings/Sites Dorset/Weymouth & Portland Coastal English Heritage
File Size: 29MB
Close up of the gun tower at Dartmouth Castle with three 18th century canon mounted on wheeled gun carriages this innovative gun tower dates from around 1490 it accommodated four large guns called Great Murderers and twelve lighter Serpentynes giving the castle the capacity to sink large ships a chain boom was stretched from the base of the tower across to Kingswear Castle to prevent enemy ships sailing up the river Dart the gun platforms on either side of the tower were probably added between 1539 and 1544 Dartmouth Castle is open to the public through English Heritage and is a Grade 1 listed building Dartmouth South Hams South West Devon South West England UK Dartmouth Castle Gun Tower; fort; artillery; fortification; defence; military architecture; stone; stone built; limestone; slate; sandstone; masonry; castellations; gunports; machicolations; put log holes; EH; history; heritage; historic building; historic; Tudor; 15th century; sunshine; sunlight; sunny; blue sky; River; Dart; Estuary; vacation; holiday; travel; tourism; tourist attraction; coastal; coast; portrait; upright; vertical; Westcountry; West Country; SW England; English; British; Britain; Great Britain; GB; United Kingdom