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Seymour Tower is a coastal defence tower built on a rocky
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called L'Avarison, located 2 km (1.25 miles) east of the shoreline of
Jersey Jersey ( , ; nrf, Jèrri, label= Jèrriais ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (french: Bailliage de Jersey, links=no; Jèrriais: ), is an island country and self-governing Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west France. It is the l ...
, an area included in Jersey's South-East coast Ramsar site. Acquired by Jersey Heritage in 2006, it has since been used for self-catering accommodation.


History

The tower was constructed in 1782 following the Battle of Jersey (6 January 1781), and is one of thirty coastal towers that Conway planned to build in the Channel Island. Only 23 towers were built, and Seymour is the only one that is square-shaped rather than round. A 1860 memorandum from Colonel Le Couter declared that Seymour Tower and Icho Tower to south were to be abandoned. After a long period of vacancy, the States of Jersey purchased the tower in 1923 for £120 and it was subsequently released to private tenants. Jersey Heritage acquired the tower in 2006 and uses it for self-catering accommodation. In 2012 the tower and surrounding area featured in "The Riddle of the Tides", an episode of the
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Coast The coast, also known as the coastline or seashore, is defined as the area where land meets the ocean, or as a line that forms the boundary between the land and the coastline. The Earth has around of coastline. Coasts are important zones in ...
''. In May 2022, the tower served as the base for an archaeological survey of the Violet Bank, an
intertidal The intertidal zone, also known as the foreshore, is the area above water level at low tide and underwater at high tide (in other words, the area within the tidal range). This area can include several types of habitats with various species ...
reef A reef is a ridge or shoal of rock, coral or similar relatively stable material, lying beneath the surface of a natural body of water. Many reefs result from natural, abiotic processes— deposition of sand, wave erosion planing down rock o ...
, of which some is exposed during the low spring tide. The team of archaeologists, led by Dr Matthew Pope of UCL's Institute of Archaeology, in collaboration with Jersey Heritage, began to document more evidence of
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activity in this landscape. This work complements research carried out at
La Cotte de St Brelade La Cotte de St Brelade is a Paleolithic site of early habitation in Saint Brélade, Jersey. ''Cotte'' means "cave" in Jèrriais. The cave is also known as ''Lé Creux ès Fées'' (The Fairies' Cave). Neanderthals lived there at various time ...
, on the south-west coast of Jersey which showed that Neanderthals had lived there between 250,000 and 50,000 years ago.


See also

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Coastal fortifications of Jersey Jersey is a heavily fortified island with coastal fortifications that date to the English Civil War, the Napoleonic Wars, and Nazi Germany's occupation of the Channel Islands. The fortifications include castles, forts, towers, Martello towers, ar ...


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Seymour Tower
*BBC Radio Inside Science: Low-Tide Archaeolog

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