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Monograph: Devon County Council. 2000. Fire Beacons: Warning Signals across the Countryside. Fire Beacons: Warning Signals across the Countryside. A4 Unbound.
The Yorkshire coastal fortlets probably only enjoyed a brief period of Roman military use – perhaps, 20 to 30 years – before being abandoned. What happened to them next is a matter of conjecture but might have been somewhat gruesome. In the excavations at Huntcliffe fourteen skeletons of men, women and children were found dumped in the well. At Goldsborough, the archaeologists who uncovered the remains of the fort wrote: The station at West Soar appears to have had accommodation quarters on its western side. The conjectural reconstruction drawing shows this together with long flagpoles projecting from the roof of the building.
Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R., 2013-2014, South Devon Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Project (Interpretation). SDV351146. Over the years there has been considerable discussion and debate about the function of the Yorkshire coastal fortlets. One suggestion is that they might have constituted a signalling chain – using beacons – monitoring movements and hostile activities along the coast. However, it would have required an enormous tower for Goldsborough to transmit any messages to Whitby, irrespective of the compounding effect of sea frets. An alternative may have been for them to communicate inland to forts such as Malton (via intermediate beacons), but it would still have taken some time for the military unit stationed there – Numerus Supervenientium Petuarensium – to mobilise and march to the coast or to intercept any raiders heading inland. On the 1841 Malborough tithe map, Plot 2212 is recorded as 'Signal House Field' on the accompanying apportionment. The building is illustrated near the western boundary of this field. The structure is also illustrated on the 1st edition 25 inch OS map (1880s) and the 2nd edition (1904-6). Full account of the Roman pottery which forms the main basis for the study of Signal-Station types and tabulated list of coins and hoard of fifty seven coins ranging from Constantine to Honorius. (5,6)
d) it was still some kind of signal station in 1903, but not Lloyds (as the OS does seem to prefer the use of the Lloyds name on its mapping by this date) Eddystone had provided a radio beacon service, but its range often fell short. As part of the scheme to automate Eddystone, two radio masts were erected at Penlee, for a more efficient system to be installed. Two large lattice towers were positioned in front of the accommodation. An Armoured Command Vehicle (ACV) equipped with signalling units and used throughout campaigns in North Africa and Italy can be viewed in the Museum.
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Sleightholme, J. D., 1992, West Soar and the Old Admiralty Signal Stations, 10-12 (Article in Serial). SDV352067. In 1899 tenders were requested for the building of a fog signal station at Penlee Point to assist the fog signals already in place at Eddystone Lighthouse and Plymouth Breakwater Lighthouse.
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Devon County Council, 2000, Fire Beacons: Warning Signals across the Countryside (Monograph). SDV320945. b) the writer of 'The Coasts of Devon & Lundy' might have mistakenly referred to it as a Lloyds station Interpretation: Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R.. 2013-2014. South Devon Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Project. AC Archaeology Report. Digital.
An Admiralty flag signal station which was in use during the Napoleonic Wars is recorded just north of the National Trust boundary in the ploughed field a few metres to the east of the footpath from Warren House to Lower Soar. It is a little building with a pointed roof, preserved in situ and in good condition. For adults it’s €7.50 while seniors and students can get in for €6. Children under 14 cost €4.50 while children under 5 can go for free. A family group of two adults and up to four children can get in for €25 (prices may change). 5. How long you need hereInterpretation: Pink, F.. 2014. South Devon Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey Desk-Based Assessment. AC Archaeology Report. ACD618/4/3. Digital. The people that were killed there and thrown into the well were defending their temple. They were thrown into the well as blasphemy to their religion, if not, why bother to put them and leave them there .. then use the very same place later as a station fort. They could have been killed outright and trashed away. erosion, consisted of a central tower surrounded by a curtain wall anda V-shaped ditch, of the same type of Huntcliff (NZ 62 SE 8), Goldsborough (NZ 81 NW 2) and Filey (TA 18 SW 2). Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 1944. RAF CT/89/541. Royal Air Force Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). RAF CT/89/541 3063 08-MAR-1944.
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