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Field Visit
Date 28 March 2019
Event ID 1087752
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1087752
This pit, which once contained an engine-house, is situated at the end of the road leading WSW from the North Sutor battery. It measures 16m from N to S but it has been partly infilled from the E so that its present measurement of 14.5m from E to W is several metres short of its original length. It is at 4m deep. On the S, the pit is defined by a concrete-capped, stone wall measuring 21m in length that is heavily battered on the N and fronted on the S by a bund up to 20m thick. There is an equally substantial bank on the W, while on the N, where the pit has been cut into the natural slope, only a short length of the face of a revetment wall is visible. The E side is hidden behind the earth and rubbish that has been dumped into the interior, including amongst it many coils of barbed wire entangled with corkscrew picket posts.
The engine house is shown upon plans of the North Sutor held by the National Archives at Kew (WO78/5192), one of which is dated to 1 May 1913.
Visited by HES, Survey and Recording (ATW, AKK, KLG), 28 March 2019.
