Archaeology Notes

Event ID 746980

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY20SE 2.00 28901 00684

HY20SE 2.01 HY 2822 0036 to HY 2866 0050 Tramway

HY20SE 2.02 centred HY 2875 0053 Military Camp

HY20SE 2.03 HY 28952 00070 and HY 28976 00068 Searchlight Battery

HY20SE 2.04 HY 28946 00068 Engine House

HY20SE 2.05 HY 28913 00065 Engine House

A concrete built gun emplacement, situated on Scad Head. A twin 6 pounder emplacement with no overhead cover with associated buildings and evidence of railway tracks on the beach. The guns were removed in 1950.

J Guy 1993; NMRS 810/2; WO/192/265.

Scad Head coast battery has been built around Chalmers' Hope bay and the Head itself. The accommodation area (HY20SE 2.02) lies at the bottom of a tramway incline some 600m below the B9047 public road.

Other elements of the battery can be detected around the point and further SE are traces of another gun-emplacement.

Visited by RCAHMS (DE) August 1997