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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 671070
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/671070
NT17NE 71.01 1969 7866
A concrete and brick built building situated at the top of a rise above the gun-emplacement (NT17NE 71.00). It has three concrete machinery plinths with some of the fixing bolts still in situ.
Visited by RCAHMS (DE) September 1996
Site recorded during a rapid coastal survey undertaken by GUARD of the S shore of the Firth of Forth from Dunbar to Stirling and along the N shore of the Forth to the Fife border. A gazetteer of all sites including listed buildings, designed landscapes, scheduled and unscheduled monuments was produced. Full details of the survey can be consulted in the report held by the NMRS.
Sponsor: Historic Scotland
GUARD 1996
Concrete and brick built building. It has been vandalised.
Site recorded by GUARD during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, 'The Firth of Forth from Dunbar to the Coast of Fife' 10th March 1996..
The two gun batteries along with the associated accommodation camps, engine houses, searchlight platforms and ancillery buildings are visible on post-war RAF vertical air photographs (106G/Scot/UK 117, 5017-18, flown 29 May 1946).
Information from RCAHMS (DE), December 2001
A reinforced concrete building (not concrete and brick) situated on the island's level plateau. It has four concrete machinery plinths, three for the main generators and one for an auxiliary charging set.
Information to RCAHMS via e-mail from Mr J Dods (Cramond Heritage Society), April 2006.
