Field Visit
Date 23 August 2017
Event ID 1042591
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1042591
Little can be seen in an area now occupied by a golf course and waste ground of this heavy anti-aircraft battery which is recorded on an RAF vertical aerial photograph (3664, F309) taken on 6 June 1941. It was one of at least 43 such batteries that were constructed to protect the industries in the centre of Glasgow and along the banks of the River Clyde from aerial attack by the Luftwaffe during WWII. However, a grass-grown mound (NS27543 74918), situated about 70m N of the clubhouse and partly underlying a fence-line may mark the site of the SE gun-pit. It measures 24m from N to S by 23m transversely and up to 1m high.
The heavily overgrown concrete foundations of a building (NS27398 74959) and an isolated piece of concrete (NS 27391 74995), situated in waste ground about 140m NW of the clubhouse, are the only traces of the associated camp.
Visited by HES, Survey and Recording (ATW, AKK) 23 August 2017.