Bovisand Pier Gun (10A03)
This gun has been mounted muzzle upwards on the end of the pier at Fort Bovisand to be used as a mooring bollard. Only 1m of the length of the gun is visible with the breech and trunnions buried in the pier. The bore of the gun is 110mm (4.3in).
This gun is shown in an early photograph of Fort Bovisand so may have been installed when the pier was completed in 1824.
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References
McDonald K., 1997, Fort Bovisand, Wreckwalker Books, ISBN 0 9528637 1
Pye A. & Woodward F., 1996, The Historic Defences of Plymouth, Exeter Archaeology, ISBN 1 898166 46 3
Woodward F., 1997, Forts or Follies? - A History of Plymouth's Palmerston Forts, Halsgrove, ISBN 1 874448 12 4
