Archaeology Notes

Event ID 654099

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH86NW 11.13 80879 67011

Previously recorded as NH86NW 15.

The Port War Signal Station for the Cromarty Firth is situated on the W side of the South Sutor coast battery (NH86NW 11.00). The signal station has been demolished, but several buildings constructed of wood, concrete and asbestos sheeting forming part of the hutted camp are extant, albeit in very poor condition.

J Guy 2000; NMRS MS 810/10, Vol.2, 59

A group of huts comprising the former WW I and WW II Port War Signal Station. The huts are constructed of wood, concrete and asbestos sheets and are in varying stages of dilapidation.

The Port War Signal Station is visible on RAF vertical air photographs (106G/UK/751, 6035-6037, flown 31 August 1945).

Visited by RCAHMS (DE, SW, GS)