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Field Visit
Date 31 August 2022
Event ID 1161525
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1161525
This Second World War gun emplacement is situated at the N end of the E side of Cramond Island and originally comprised a holdfast that once supported twin 6-pounder guns, a crew shelter that stood immediately S, a magazine W, and a gun store N. On the date of visit the pit at the centre of the gun platform was filled with rubble and the actual holdfast was not visible. The walkway around both sides and the rear of the pit remains intact and the twin rails for the running of ammunition trolleys is readily visible. The area outside the walkway around the sides and rear of the platform was also filled with rubble, largely obscuring the ammunition lockers below. The same rubble blocked access to the crew shelter which otherwise remains intact. The gun store has been removed leaving only its concrete floor. The magazine measures 7.3m from N to S by 3.97m transversely within walls 0.57m thick and rising 2.77m to a corrugated iron ceiling and flat concrete roof. There is a doorway (1.05m wide) close to the N end of the W side which retains its heavy-duty steel frame and one of its two original doors. Ammunition was supplied to the gun-pit via a rectangular hatch in the middle of the E side. It measures 1.05m wide by 0.89m high and stands about 1m above the floor.
Visited by HES Archaeological Survey (J. Sherriff, A. McCaig) 31 August 2022.
