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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 695220
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/695220
NO43SW 162 4338 3088
A coastal battery was situated on the shore side of the W end of Broughty Ferry Road. Nothing survives of this battery which had mounted two 6-inch Mk XI/PV guns in June 1940. The site was put into care and maintainance in April 1945 and had been removed by October 1945.
J Guy 2000; NMRS MS 810/9
This battery, with its associated observation post and trench system, is visible on RAF aerial photographs (106G/Scot/UK 1: 6303-6302) taken on 10 April 1946. The communication trenches were filled in by March 1954 (RAF aerial photographs 58/RAF/1366 F22: 0016-0015) and the remainder of the site had been removed by February 1957 (RAF aerial photographs 58/RAF/2098 F22: 0017-0016).
Information from RCAHMS (KM) 9 November 2000.
The battery is also visible on a WW II RAF oblique aerial photograph, (No.1 CAM, AF 686, flown 8 May 1943), which shows the canopied two gun-emplacements, battery observation post, one searchlight emplacement and other associated buildings.
Informatio from RCAHMS (DE), February 2002
