Archaeology Notes
Event ID 669042
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NJ26NE 30.00 centred 2813 6789
For coast defences at Innes Links see NJ26NE 14.00 and NJ36NW 5.00
NJ26NE 30.01 NJ 28148 67892 Gun Emplacement (No.1 gun)
NJ26NE 30.02 NJ 28102 67910 Gun Emplacement (No.2 gun)
NJ26NE 30.03 NJ 28238 67849 Observation Post (Battery OP)
NJ26NE 30.04 NJ 28315 67817 Searchlight Emplacement (E)
NJ26NE 30.05 NJ 27993 67962 Searchlight Emplacement (W)
NJ26NE 30.06 NJ 28141 67836 Engine House (Main)
NJ26NE 30.07 NJ 28237 67802 Engine House (E)
NJ26NE 30.08 NJ 27981 67940 Engine House (W)
NJ26NE 30.09 NJ 28106 67865 Magazine; Trench
NJ26NE 30.10 NJ 28088 67773 (centred) Military Camp (accommodation)
This Second World War concrete built coast battery situated on the seaward side of a fishing station, consisted of two 6 inch gun emplacements, three engine rooms and two searchlight platforms.
There are two boltrings in each emplacement with camouflage paint and wires still extant. The guns were placed on a care and maintainance basis in April 1945 and removed later that year.
J Guy 1992; NMRS MS 810/1 1992; Royal Artillery Library, Woolwich.
GRC NJ26NE 15 2815 6785. Coastal battery comprising 2 x 6 in. gun emplacements, 3 x engine rooms and 2 x searchlight emplacements set facing N across foreshore (NJ24NE 14.14). The battery formed at Lossiemouth on 28 May 1941; it had been reduced to care and maintenance by April 1945 and removed by June 1945.
Defence line of anti-tank blocks and pillboxes protecting the dunes.
Visited by J Guy
This battery and defence line is visible on Royal Air Force vertical aerial photographs taken in 1945 (106G/UK 750: 5008, 5009) and oblique aerial photographs taken in 1950 (541/A/487: 0077-0078).
Information from RCAHMS (KM) 13 March 2001.
The emergency coast battery comprises two brick and concrete gun emplacements located at NJ 28102 67910 and NJ 28148 67892, and situated on the slope of the first line of sand dunes immediately to the rear of the anti-tank and pillbox line. The associated huts and buildings are situated to the S, E and W of the gun-emplacements (see NJ26NE 30.03-30.10) most of which are depicted on the current OS 1:2500 scale digital map.
The battery is notable for its relative completeness including a connecting trench or sunken path system (NJ26NE 30.09) cut into the sand dunes leading from the gun emplacements (NJ26NE30.01 and 30.02) to the magazine (NJ26NE 30.09) and beyond. The gun emplacements unusually have two holdfast boltrings in each, one set to the side of the gun platform, but no explanation for this has yet been found.
The accommodation camp for gun crews comprising several concrete hut bases is situated about 130m to the S, immediately N of the Fishing Station (NJ26NE 31).
Two 6-inch MkXI/V were recorded as mounted at the Battery in May 1941 with the installation reduced to care and maintenance by April 1945, the guns being removed in June 1946. The 227 Battery was formed at Lossiemouth (Royal Artillery Library at Woolwich; J Guy 1992).
Visited by RCAHMS (DE, NG), 27 February 2008
