Without a Shadow of Redoubt Traditional Cache
Rosslessness: Seeing the new building works in place it’s best this one is removed.
Without a Shadow of Redoubt
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Not a simple cache and Dash at all!
Please note the Terrain rating as you will have to do some scrambling to find this 35mm film canister. Be warned, THERE IS NO PEN INSIDE, so bring your own.
Although you can get within three feet of the cache with no trouble at all, your final approach will involve some route finding and can be slippery in very wet weather.
Limited parking available at N51 02.879 E.001 02.127
Dymchurch Redoubt was built during the Napoleonic War as part of a large defensive scheme to protect the country from an expected French invasion.
The spot was formerly occupied by a building called Brookman's Barn.
The Redoubt is circular in form, measuring up to 68 metres in diameter and stands 12 metres above the floor of its 9 metre-wide dry moat.
It lacks the caponiers or musketry galleries of the otherwise identical Eastbourne Redoubt. Built on two stories, the upper floor had open emplacements for ten 24 pounder guns mounted on wooden traversing platforms. The lower floor featured twenty four vaulted barrack and storage casemates, which opened onto a circular parade ground. They were designed to accommodate 350 officers and men. Entry was originally via a wooden footbridge supported by stilts, which could be collapsed in an emergency.
It was built to support the chain of 21 Martello Towers that stretched between Folkestone in Kent and Rye in Sussex. It specifically protected the sluices that were the key to the drainage of Romney Marsh.
During World War I, it was used for troop accommodation, although there was a question in Parliament about the damp conditions.
In World War II, the south coast was again at risk of invasion, and two 6 inch breech-loading guns were mounted in casements built over the original gun emplacements. A prominent battery observation post was built and pill boxes were sited on the parapet in order to repel an infantry attack. It was fully operational by 1942 as an Emergency Coastal Battery.
The Redoubt is still MOD property and as such is inaccessible to the public, which is why the cache has been placed in a nearby location with views of the fortifications.
If you enjoyed this cache, why not follow the Martello Trail along the coast.
FTF honours go to Riddelske!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Erne bs Ebpxf, Xarr Urvtug, Arne Tenff.
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