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Flat Bastion Magazine
The Flat Bastion Magazine is a 19th-century magazine in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It is located within the Flat Bastion, a fortification that projects from the 16th century Charles V Wall at the former southern limit of the city. Flat Bastion Road extends through the bastion, just to the west of the magazine, south of which it becomes Gardiner's Road. Flat Bastion Magazine was constructed to store gunpowder, but eventually lay abandoned for years. While the Government of Gibraltar initially planned to develop it for parking, geology enthusiast Freddie Gomez and a colleague restored the building, which is now used as a geological research facility and exhibition centre. Both the Flat Bastion and the Flat Bastion Magazine are listed with the Gibraltar Heritage Trust. In addition, Gomez received the 2001 Heritage Award for the restoration of the building.
==Early history==
The Flat Bastion Magazine is a magazine in Gibraltar, the British Overseas Territory at the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula. It is within the eastern portion ''(highlighted in map below)'' of the Flat Bastion, one of the fortifications of Gibraltar that projects southward from the Charles V Wall and constituted part of the defences of the former southern limit of the city. Flat Bastion Road traverses the Flat Bastion, extending along the west side of the Flat Bastion Magazine.〔〔 Access to the road at the north end of the bastion is provided by a gate ''(depicted in map below and in photograph at left)'' in the Charles V Wall, while at the south end of the bastion, a portion of its face has been removed ''(pictured in panoramic above)''.〔 Immediately south of the bastion and its magazine, the road becomes Gardiner's Road.
The magazine was built on scree breccia, with an underlying bedrock of limestone. The ground on which the magazine was constructed was relatively flat due to "quaternary wave-cut platforms." While it is generally considered likely that a magazine was formerly present on the same site, the current, British magazine dates back to at least 1873, based on the date inscribed on a keystone over one of the doorways ''(pictured at left)''.〔 The Flat Bastion Magazine was constructed primarily of locally quarried limestone blocks.〔 It was built in wartime to store approximately 5,000 barrels of gunpowder.〔 Many of the original wooden supports are still present. The primary storage area for gunpowder has been described as "a room within a room" as it is surrounded by a narrow hallway.〔 Windows are present at the side walls of the principal room. Bricks were utilized in the construction of the walls, to absorb the impact of explosions. The doors were fabricated from oak that dates back five or six centuries, well before the British version of the magazine was built.〔
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