bastion

1. The History Rocroi is a commune located in the Ardennes department in northern France. It is notable for its surviving example of a bastion fort. The initial stronghold built in 1552 on the orders of King Henri II of France to counter the fortress of Charlemont. King Francis I, father of...

Here’s a couple of minor Dover sites that we came across on the way to other explores. They don’t merit a report in their own right, but if you put them together there’s just about enough to make a report. Visited in a long day in Dover with @Bikin Glynn and two other non-forum members. 1. East...

1. The History As the name suggests, the East Demi Bastion is located to the eastern side of Dover Castle. Although named a bastion, it could be considered aa mini-fortress in its own right, given its huge moat and small underground sections. The eastern approaches to the castle were considered...

1. The History Located in the Kent town of Dover, the Detached Bastion is part of the Western Heights, which were a series of forts, strong points and ditches. They were built to supplement the ageing medieval castle designed to protect the country from invasion. Located between the Drop Redoubt...

East Demi Bastion forms part of Dover Castle and its defences. However unlike most of Dover Castles tunnles and defences it remains off limits to the public. The Demi Bastion forms a defensive position on the east side of the moat nearest the port. However it is linked via spiral staircases and...

The Centre Bastion we know today was built in 1825 during the expansion of De Gomme’s original Sheerness Lines defences from 1670. It was originally armed with 64 pounder guns only for 2 10” mark 111 RML guns to be added. These were loaded with ammunition from the magazine tunnels below which...

Often mistaken for the nearby Centre Bastion or somehow the fort at Garrison Point (by clickbaiters and idiots), Bastion Number 1 was part of the “Sheerness Lines” which is basically like the Western Heights or Chatham Lines of Sheppey but with a water-filled moat. The old Sheerness Lines were...

I have always fancied this place, it's a place that quite interested me. And given that the whole fort with its bastions is the biggest in the country, so whilst me and man gone wrong were in Kent we went for a look. The outside is quite impressive alone, but inside I found the work in how it...

The North Centre and Detached Bastions are located between the Drop Redoubt and the Citadel on the Western Heights. Their purpose was to assist in defending the northern approaches to Dover, particularly from the Folkestone Road, along which it was envisaged Napoleon and the French Grand Army...

With social isolation heating up a couple of weeks ago and our local shutting , me and a couple of friends decided to do one of our monthly road trips down to Dover before being forced into isolation for the next 3 weeks. Firstly we visited the infamous Dumpy B which I think we’ve now gone to...

I did a report on this years back and the pictures where pretty badly lit and on a 18mm kit lense so after many years of not going out anywhere i've been dragged out of retirement a few times this year by Obscurity and this was a nice little revisit to get better pics and have a laugh...

History: In 1859 the Royal Commission which called for modification across the Western Heights reviewed the unfinished North Centre Bastion. Work began on its completion and the construction of the Detached Bastion and its caponier. They were armed throughout the main phase of occupation at the...

Hi guys; today I done the WHOLE East Demi Bastion and saw some pretty cool things like the “Red Room” that had the tunnel that came out at the cliffe edge and two sets of spiral staircases as well as a well preserved, yet still rusted, chimney. This has been a great location and I’d like to...

Most people know this one. It’s my first location and I can’t think of a better one. It includes the two storey caponier, two (wait no-three.) decaying drawbridges, the Devil’s tunnel, wells and pretty much everything you need in an explore apart from amo shafts and big magazine tunnels but I’m...

Tunnels The Drop Redoubt is certainly a formidable looking structure even now, with its massive walls, bombproof casemates and the caponiers providing excellent means of defence. Surrounding the Drop Redoubt is a dry ditch system over which the caponiers would have provided fire against any...