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Milford Haven East Blockhouse

In the community of Angle.
In the historic county of Pembrokeshire (Modern authority of Pembrokeshire, preserved county of Dyfed).

Tottering stone ruin, on cliff top, of gun battery coastal blockhouse of 1540. Possibly referred to in 1543 as the 'bulwarks', "lately made at Milford Haven", this is a roofless ruin, 24' N-S by 13' E-W, divided into two unequal parts. An enclosure was noted to the N and a second, smaller building to the SE, however cliff errosion had, by 1975, advanced to the point where it had achieved the fall of the building's N wall. King writes the visible ruins are of "some later addition of no importance".

This site has been described as a;
Artillery Fort.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.


The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SM84110277

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Good for general location

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National Monuments Record number; 270718

County Sites and Monuments Record number; 3061

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This record last updated on Saturday, January 20, 2007

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