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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 654100
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/654100
NH86NW 11.22 80702 67229
Previously recorded as NH86NW 16.00
NH86NW 11.23 NH 8091 6707 Observation post
This building is situated on the footpath below the track that runs from South Sutor coast battery (NH86NW 11.00) to Cromarty.
A small concrete building with lookout slits and steel shutters it was the extended Defence Officer's (XDO) post which would have controlled the submarine minefield in the Cromarty Firth.
J Guy 2000; NMRS MS 810/10, Vol.2, 89, Vol.3, 59
