Field Visit

Date 28 September 2016

Event ID 1018798

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

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Situated midway between the two main gun emplacements (NS28SE 39.01 and 02) are two semi -sunken buildings comprising a workshop and a cookhouse. A plan of the battery (National Archives: WO 78/5184) depicts a latrine attached to the ESE end of the cookhouse. Both elements of this building appear to survive as depicted on the contemporary plan, but neither could be accessed on the date of visit. The stripping of earth has recently revealed the stepped outside face of the SSW side and WNW end of the cookhouse, the latter containing a large chimney breast. The flat-roofed workshop, which is situated immediately NNE of the cookhouse, remains in use as a store but its WNW, NNE and ESE sides are now hidden within a modern structure with timber clad walls that supports an area of decking.

Visited by HES Survey and Recording (AKK) 28 September 2016.