Field Visit
Date 22 April 2017
Event ID 1031313
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1031313
Nothing is now visible on a rocky summit, redeveloped as a viewpoint, of a World War Two light anti-aircraft battery which is visible on an RAF air photograph (106G/UK/988 3460) flown on 9 November 1945 and also noted in a document held by the National Archives at Kew (WO 166 7369). The battery was one of at least three constructed to protect Gourock. Similar arrangements of light anti-aircraft batteries were established around a number of vulnerable points, either military or industrial, along the banks of the Clyde.
This position was also occupied by a World War One light anti-aircraft gun (NS27NE 40).
Visited by HES, Survey and Recording (ATW, AKK) 22 August 2017.
