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![[picture: Castle entrance]](https://www.holoweb.net/~liam/pictures/2004-09-uk-cornwall-06-st-michaels-mount/big/cimg3026-150x200.jpg "[picture: Castle entrance]")
Shallow stone steps lead up to the castle doorway, which is slightly arched. Over the door is a heraldic crest.
![[picture: Stone pineapple]](https://www.holoweb.net/~liam/pictures/2004-09-uk-cornwall-06-st-michaels-mount/big/cimg3027-150x200.jpg "[picture: Stone pineapple]")
Everyone needs a stone pineapple on the edge of a cliff.
![[picture: 1784 water tank]](https://www.holoweb.net/~liam/pictures/2004-09-uk-cornwall-06-st-michaels-mount/big/cimg3028-266x200.jpg "[picture: 1784 water tank]")
A cistern or water tank dated September 29th, 1784.
![[picture: Overgrown battlements]](https://www.holoweb.net/~liam/pictures/2004-09-uk-cornwall-06-st-michaels-mount/big/cimg3029-266x200.jpg "[picture: Overgrown battlements]")
More ivy behind the crennelations.
![[picture: 1784 water tank 2]](https://www.holoweb.net/~liam/pictures/2004-09-uk-cornwall-06-st-michaels-mount/big/cimg3030-266x200.jpg "[picture: 1784 water tank 2]")
Another view.
![[picture: Castle window with gun hole]](https://www.holoweb.net/~liam/pictures/2004-09-uk-cornwall-06-st-michaels-mount/big/cimg3031-266x200.jpg "[picture: Castle window with gun hole]")
The round hole was almost certainly made to allow a musket to poke thorugh, with the gunner watching through the slit above. Originally it would probably just have been a slit, for an archer to use. [more...]
![[picture: High mullioned window]](https://www.holoweb.net/~liam/pictures/2004-09-uk-cornwall-06-st-michaels-mount/big/cimg3032-150x200.jpg "[picture: High mullioned window]")
A window high up in the tower has stone mullions. And an iron drainpipe for the water.
![[picture: Stone crest]](https://www.holoweb.net/~liam/pictures/2004-09-uk-cornwall-06-st-michaels-mount/big/cimg3033-266x200.jpg "[picture: Stone crest]")
The heraldic crest over the door.
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