This caponier is at the end of one
arm of the dry ditch. It was designed to control and prevent the
movement of enemy troops through the dry ditch system. Soldiers
manning Fort Amherst could have reached this caponier via a tunnel
from Amherst Redoubt, or from two stairways from the Prince of Wales
Bastion. Unfortunately these stairways have now been blocked, and the
site of the Prince of Wales Bastion is now a tennis club.
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Access is not possible, this is on
private land.