Scoveston Fort

The fort is shaped as a very large hexagon — similar to Crownhill Fort at Plymouth —, of which each side is 120 m long. It is surrounded by a dry moat about 8 m deep and 11 m wide). The escarp walls are stone-revetted, the counterscarp is natural rock. There is only one entry, on the south side. The fort was approached by a serpentine road to a wooden bridge, the latter now replaced by an earth causeway. The entry is a stone archway into a tunnel through a massive earth bank. The moat was covered by one double and four single two-storey caponnieres, each with 4-gun embrasures and musketry loopholes. The fort was meant to have 32 guns placed on the ramparts, served by 12 expense magazines…