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The Walled City of Charles Town
Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: December 22, 2012
Caption: The Walled City of Charles Town
Additional Description: additional marker:
Section of parapet, or upper portion of the wall The parapet included embrasures, or splayed cannon openings,designed to provide additional "lines of fire." Based on the 1739 illustration, each redan was armed with five to seven cannon. This section of brick parapet was pushed into the moat when the upper wall was demolished in 1785. It was recoverd during the 2008 excavation.
Submitted: January 13, 2013, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p231237
File Size: 0.211 Megabytes

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