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A stretch of curtain wall with bastions and a powder magazine, built to strengthen the defences of Scilly after the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. It was re-built and extended to enclose a large headland in the 18thC. Re-armed in WWI, the garrison was an important signal station during WWII.
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