Lower Bank's Battery, St. Helena Island3D Model
Two areas comprise Banks’ Battery Sector–the Lower Banks’ Platform which consists of a crenelated rampart wall with an arched tunnel leading from the sea into the complex. Accompanying the fortifications, are several support buildings including a barracks, a smaller building of unknown use, a magazine built into the cliff walls and a lime kiln further inland. The installation was constructed as early as 1678, and the Sellers Map of 1682 shows fortification. Lower Banks’ is situated in a valley and when sailing from the north presents as the first area to land, as such it needed to be fortified. Still too, any progress to Jamestown from the north along the west side of the island would have to pass Banks’. Throughout this early period the curtain wall had a complement between 4 and 8 guns respectively. During the Napoleonic period inventories indicate there were seven guns on the curtain wall.
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