Coastal Batteries of Scotland

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Date 1 January 2019 - 31 December 2020

Event ID 1087767

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Type Project

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Certain Coastal Batteries in Scotland

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Event	Type	Subtype	Notes	Date
1108193	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	This grass-grown pile of reinforced cast concrete and brick rubble, situated in rough pasture 19.5m E of the E gun emplacement (NJ86NW 10.9), is all that remains of a battery observation post. It measures 10m from NNE to SSW by 7m transversely. Traces of two rectangular compartments are visible below the detritus. The better preserved on the SSW measures 3m from WNW to ESE by 2.8m within brick walls 0.24m thick and 0.95m high. A lintel adhering to a large fragment of a flat concrete roof marks what may be the remains of a doorway on the WNW. Another large fragment also retains what may be a small circular vent for the chimney of a stove and a moulded gutter along one edge of the slab. [...]	28 April 2019
1087722	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	This grass-grown foxhole is situated in rough pasture 22.5m SSE of the road leading WSW from the North Sutor battery. It is cut-back into the SE-facing slope and measures 1.35m from WSW to ENE by 1.1m transversely and up to 0.4m in depth. The upcast bank on the SSE is 0.4m high. [...]	28 March 2019
1087770	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	This small enclosure, which is situated a little N of the midpoint between the two gun emplacements (NH86NW 9.04), is set back into the S-facing scarp that forms the front of the platform supporting the Officers’ Mess (NH86NW 9.39). It is defined by a bank on the S and SE, and is entered via a passage on the W. A concrete pillar, measuring 0.3m square and 0.55m high, within the interior originally supported a direction range finder. [...]	28 March 2019