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Entrance to underground storage compartment
 Fort Norfolk

Underground Storage

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  1. Main Gate
  2. Dungeon or Black Hole
  3. Carpenter's Shop & Storeroom
  4. Underground Storage
  5. Officers' Quarters/Shell House
  6. Covered Walkway
  7. Navy Magazine
  8. Rail Track
  9. Workshop
  10. Stable
  11. Soldiers' Barracks/Tank House
  12. Main Battery
  13. Guardhouse
  14. Cistern and Cistern House
Map of Fort Norfolk

Of unknown age, this small compartment is built into the rear rampart and may have served as an old-fashioned cooler to preserve meats and vegetables. It may have served originally as a magazine.



 

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