History
Of the Battery, Craig Weatherhill, local historian and archaeologist wrote:
"The 18th century gun battery site is in fact a good deal older than that and is almost certainly the site mentioned in the report to King Philip of Spain written by Don Carlos de Amezola, commanding officer of the fleet of four Spanish warships that raided Mousehole, Newlyn and Penzance in August 1595.
Captain de Amezola wrote the following words in this report:
‘At the same time, the sergeant major Juan de Arnica, on the order of Captain Carlos de Amezola, went with twelve musketeers and arquebusiers in a launch to capture the piece of artillery that was in the fort in Penzance. Although there were English (sic) men who came to its defence, the sergeant major got the piece on board and brought it to the flagship’. No other gun battery site is known on the coast at Penzance and this is almost certainly the Battery Rocks site that is the subject of this report. "
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