Archaeology Notes

Event ID 656533

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NG89SW 4.01 81488 92143 and 81526 92126

The two brick and concrete gun-emplacements are relatively complete and both have holdfasts for the gun mounting in place. The two gun-emplacements have steel beams made by Dorman, Long and Cold of Middlesborough. The steelwork at the front is now supported by 'ACRO' jacks and is now believed to be in a dangerous condition. There are various compartments and ready-use ammunition lockers to the rear of both emplacements.

The battery was armed with 2 x 6-inch MkVII guns on Naval mountings from HMS Iron Duke which were installed in July 1941 (J Guy 2000).

Visited by RCAHMS (DE, GS, JG), August 2000