Tombstone Battery is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1983. Military battery.

Tombstone Battery

WRENN ID: scattered-clay-soot
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: North Somerset
Country: England
Date first listed: 19 May 1983
Type: Military battery
Source: Historic England listing

Description

STEEPHOLM ISLAND 1. 5121 Tombstone Battery ST 36 SW 1/82 II 2. 1866-1868 built as part of the Palmerston forts ["follies"]. Single battery with one barbette. Inside a semi-circular parapet wall of squared dressed rubble: outer ramp of earth and stone. Pit with racer cannon pivot (remains of Geo III cannon) and displaced 7 ton 7 inch cannon of 1860's. Ammunition chamber: dressed limestone exterior; brick vaulted interior. See Barret, J.M. "Maritime Forts in the Bristol Channel".

Listing NGR: ST2316760754

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