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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 678412
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/678412
NT17NE 100 19549 78253
A brick built gun-emplacement is situated at the S end of Cramond Island, on a rock outcrop known as The Knoll overlooking the channel between Cramond and the Island. In the upper storey of the building is a covered concrete platform with small holdfast. This battery overlooks what was an anti-shipping barrier running between Cramond and Cramond Island (NT17NE 118).
Information from RCAHMS (DE) August 1996
A concrete and brick 75mm gun emplacement at the N end of the anti-shipping barrier. Comprising an overhead cover and magazines with one searchlight emplacement, covering the concrete boom.
The battery was installed in 1941 to provide covering fire to the barrier and was intended to have both an anti-ship and anti-tank role.
J A Guy 1997; NMRS MS 810/5, 51,53
Flat roofed brick built structure. Gun battery to protect the anti-shipping barrier (see NT 1935 7780 below).
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.
There are two separate emplacements, one being the brick built 75mm gun emplacement, the other being the reinforced concrete searchlight emplacement. It is not a two storey structure as stated. They are two separate buildings on different levels.
Information to RCAHMS via e-mail from Mr J Dods (Cramond Heritage Society), April 2006.
