Field Visit
Date 4 July 2017
Event ID 1042617
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1042617
Only a fragment of the camp associated with this heavy anti-aircraft battery survives and this is situated in a field of improved pasture (centred NS 63148 57036) about 175m NNE of the modern communications tower. The remains consist of up to four building platforms, a curving stone-capped wall (NS 63172 57066) and a brick-built drain (NS 63106 56989). This 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
The best preserved of the building platforms is largely grass-grown, but of cast concrete construction and located about 40m ENE of the field’s SW corner (NS 63120 57020). It is rectangular on plan and measures 11.2m from NW to SE by 4.7m transversely and up to 0.3m high. A low plinth at its SE end may have supported a stove. A second building platform (NS 63183 57056) is cut back into a SW-facing scarp about 65m to the NE. It is entirely grass-grown and measures 11.2m from NW to SE by 5.1m transversely. A more doubtful platform (NS 63160 57071) is situated 18m to the NW and about 3m from the public road, while another (NS63135 56973) lies immediately NE of the old hedge-line that forms the SE boundary of the field.
Visited by HES, Survey and Recording (ATW, AKK, AGCH) 4 July 2017.
