Archaeology Notes

Event ID 712429

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT18SE 24.00 15765 82463

NT18SE 24.01 Centred on NT 15384 82654 Pillboxes (Blockhouses)

Armed October 1914; 2 x 4.7" guns. Disarmed 1916. Site disposed of, 1921.

N H Clark 1986.

A First World War battery situated just W of Downing Point. There are two gun emplacements with a further gun position and officers post in-between. Two 4.7-inch guns were installed in October 1914 after removal from Kinghorn battery (NT28NE 47), these were then re-positioned in 1917 on Inchcolm Battery (NT18SE 22.04). In addition, two 12-pounder 18cwt guns were installed in July 1917 from Inchcolm.

J Guy 1994; NMRS MS 810/3

Two concrete gun-emplacements (NT 15757 82461 and NT 125774 82464)and a linking platform with gun officers position, are situated on a slight rise about 200m W of Downing Point. Both gun-emplacements with low parapets to the S, retain holdfasts, the circle of bolts is still visible in the centre. The gun officers position is set centrally between the emplacements and slightly to the rear.

Little else could be seen at this location in dense undergrowth.

Visited by RCAHMS (DE), October 2003

Site recorded by Maritime Fife during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, Kincardine to Fife Ness 1996