Field Visit
Date 2 March 2016
Event ID 1018887
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018887
The fire command post of Cloch Battery is situated near the southern boundary of the site, on a knoll that drops steeply to the W and provides a vantage point over the Firth of Clyde. The building was protected by a series of outer defences comprising a barbed wire fence and sentry/machine-gun posts (NS27NW 21.18, 21.28, 21.31 & 21.32).
The building stands on the W edge of a bedrock knoll and it is a split-level structure set into the natural slope. The northern part of the building is the earlier and has an entrance on the E which leads down from the natural ground surface into four compartments. The later, southern, part of the building is a simpler structure with a very narrow entrance on the E leading into a compartment which has once been subdivided from WNW to ESE into two equally-sized rooms.
Visited by HES Survey and Recording (GG, AK, AM) 2 March 2016.
