What is recorded here
24 pound gun on Martello Tower is a castle, fort or tower in Orkney Islands, Scotland. Perhaps the gun still points at a sea that no longer needs watching. Maybe the tower keeps a man alive only in the memory of men who stopped coming. Imagine the barrel cooling after a shot fired into empty water.
A named place photographed at this map point in Orkney Islands.
A Martello tower in the Orkney Islands, likely built in the early 19th century as part of a British defensive network against potential French invasion, and named for the 24-pound gun it housed.
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Photo: Calum McRoberts · CC BY-SA 2.0