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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 712288
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/712288
NT17NW 177.00 centred 13866 78245
Not to be confused with World War II Dalmeny Battery on Cramond Island
NT17NW 177.01 NT 13859 78251 and NT 13877 78246 Gun-emplacements
NT17NW 177.02 NT 13802 78382 Searchlight Battery
NT17NW 177.03 NT 13800 77889 Pillboxes: Trenches
See also NT17NE 308 for additional part of Dalmeny Battery defences
Installed 1914 at outbreak of war; 2 x 4.7" guns. Disarmed 1916. Site disposed of 1921.
N H Clark 1986
This battery is situated to the E of the Railway Bridge and bridge approach viaduct and lies in a garden of the house annotated 'The Forts'.
A two gun battery mounting quick firing 4.7-inch guns emplaced in 1914, and one .303-inch maxim machine gun on the parapet. In addition there was a small observation post and magazines. The guns were dismounted in 1916 and transferred to Inchcolm (NT18SE 22.00).
In World War Two, a battery named Dalmeny was located on Cramond Island (see NT17NE 71.00).
J A Guy 1997; NMRS MS 810/5, 40-2.
The two gun-emplacements and other elements of the battery are depicted on the current OS 1:2500 scale digital map.
