REPORT ON THE TELECOM CABLE TRENCH WATCHING BRIEF AT FORT CUMBERLAND
Author(s): Dave Fellows
Fort Cumberland is an 18th-century fort built on the shingle spit of Eastney Point on the south-eastern corner of Portsea Island. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument (Hampshire monument no. 277) and is the home of English Heritage's Centre for Archaeology. It is described in the English Heritage's Visitors' Handbook as 'perhaps the most impressive piece of 18th-century defensive architecture in England'. A watching brief was carried out on a telecom cable trench excavated alongside the Left Curtain wall of the Fort, and the following is the report on the findings of the excavation.
- Report Number:
- 74/2001
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 8
- Keywords:
- Artillery Fort Excavation Post Medieval
