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Field Visit
Date 21 February 2020
Event ID 1125151
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1125151
These buildings, which are situated in woodland about 245m W of St Mary’s Well (NH86NW 4), formed part of the infrastructure introduced to the Cromarty defences by the Admiralty in the First World War. The larger of the two surviving structures is terraced into the N-facing slope immediately N of a footpath leading to Cromarty. It is rectangular on plan and measures 11.7m from E to W by 5.2m transversely. The rush-grown interior is featureless, except for a plinth that supports three concrete pillars for a directional range finder. The rush-grown concrete floor of a second building is situated 25m to the SE. Also rectangular on plan, it measures 3.5m from N to S by 2.8m transversely.
The buildings are annotated ‘R.M.S.M’ (Royal Marine Submarine Mining Station) on a plan of the South Sutor batteries in the Fort Record Book held in the National Archives at Kew (WO78/5192 15/19). This shows them as part of a complex comprising three buildings situated within a large polygonal enclosure. However, the disposition of the buildings on the plan differs from that represented by the surviving remains. No trace of the enclosure was observed on the date of visit.
Visited by HES, Survey and Recording (ATW, AKK), 21 February 2020.
