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Field Visit
Date 13 March 2019
Event ID 1090599
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1090599
This pill box, which is now situated upside down 5m S of the Gun Store (NH86NW 9.12), formed part of the defences of the battery introduced by the Army during World War 2. It is a half-hexagon on plan and measures up to 2.7m broad within reinforced cast concrete walls 0.27m thick that originally stood about 1.5m high with another 0.37m extending below the ground surface. The flat roof is damaged at the back, but each of the walls is distinguished by a rectangular gun port measuring 0.32m in breadth by 0.17m in height externally increasing to 0.5m by 0.25m internally. It is evident from part of a metal railing incorporated close to what must have been the W side of the structure that it was once integrated with the World War 2 security fence (NH86NW 9.51). An aerial photograph (106G/UK 751/6040) flown on 31 August 1945 shows that it was originally located on the W side of the N gateway opposite the guardhouse (NH81964 68998).
Visited by HES, Survey and Recording (ATW, AKK), 13 March 2019.
