Thesaurus Term/Concept: CAPONIER

Identifier 140272
Class MONUMENT TYPE
Status Preferred
Index? Yes
Scope Note A covered passageway projecting into or across a ditch of a fortified place to provide flanking fire to the ditch in which it stands or for the purpose of sheltering communication with outworks.

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Context Record
Monument Type MKE111697 Ashford Flank, Dover Castle (Building)
Monument Type MKE111632 Cannons Gate and bridge caponier, Dover Castle (Building)
Monument Type MKE111677 Caponier at Constables Gateway, Dover Castle (Building)
Monument Type MKE104215 Double Caponiers of the Western Outworks of the Citadel, Western Heights, Dover (Monument)
Monument Type MKE103990 The Caponiers of the Drop Redoubt fort at Dover's Western Heights. (Monument)
Monument Type MKE104343 The north west caponier of the Detached Bastion of the Western Heights, Dover (Monument)
Monument Type MKE111637 The northern Spur earthworks, spur redan and associated caponiers, outer defences at Dover Castle (Monument)
Monument Type MKE104303 The South Caponier at the Detached Bastion of the Western Heights, Dover (Monument)
Monument Type MKE104213 The Western outworks of the Citadel, Western Heights, Dover (Monument)