Event/Activity EPM139 - Archaeological Watching Brief, Fort Cumberland

A watching brief was carried out by the English Heritage Central Archaeology Service during the excavation of a service trench between casemates 36 and 13 at Fort Cumberland in 1997. The work confirmed the position of the line of the rampart and ditch belonging to the first Fort Cumberland of 1747. Although the trench passed close to the western end of an earlier Guardhouse, no further evidence of this structure was found.