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Aerial view of coastal batteries N Sutor, Nigg, Cromarty Firth, looking N.
SC 1896753
Description Aerial view of coastal batteries N Sutor, Nigg, Cromarty Firth, looking N.
Date 1998
Collection Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 1896753
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content In the foreground are the remains of the military camp, batteries and associated buildings from WW1 & WWII, built to protect the Cromarty Firth. The features are now scheduled by Historic Environment Scotland. Below on the edge of the cliff a WW1 searchlight battery engine house is still visible. Below Castle Craig Farm Cottages, in the centre of the photo, is the site of a large water tank which supplied the camp for the North Sutor battery. Title and Scope & Content contributed by North of Scotland Archaeological Society (2021).
Accession Number 2019/15
External Reference P11059
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1896753
File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap
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