Report content as inappropriate
Original Text (Annotation: EAW008995 / 1145019)
'
Site of Fort Sutherland.
One of three artillery forts built on the Hythe coast in 1798 as a preparation for the hostilities with France. These wer later supplemented when the Martello towers were constructed.
The three forts (Moncrief, Sutherland and Twiss) gradually became ruinous and were demolished during the 1860s)
'