Gun Hill Signal Station - The Lion - Barbados




Gun Hill Signal Station

With a 360 degree view and being 700 ft above sea level, Gun Hill was what made this location strategically important as a signal station to the 18th-century British army.

The garrison captain Henry Wilkinson, spent his off duty hours  carving a huge lion measuring 10 feet tall and 16 feet long from a single rock.                                                         

It is on the hillside just below the tower.

  The Lion at Gun Hill Signal Station

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Gun Hill Signal Station seen in the background is the best preserved of the signal stations.


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Using lanterns and semaphore, soldiers based here could communicate with their counterparts at The Garrison, on the south coast, and at Grenade Hill in the north.