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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 750069
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/750069
NT18SE 22.03 19147 82677
The exact site of this battery remains unknown, however the Public Records Office have details of the armaments: four 4-inch quick firing Mk. V guns were mounted and all installed during 1917. They were removed in October 1931.
J Guy 1994; NMRS MS 810/3; PRO WO/192/254
There is a gun-emplacement facing NE, situated at the top of cliffs opposite the small rock annotated 'Swallow Craig'.
The emplacement is depicted on the current OS 1:2500 scale digital map and is also visible on a RAF WW II oblique aerial photograph (S309, 6964, flown 2 October 1941). It is not known for certain whether this is the 4-inch battery noted above, but in the absence of any other recorded gun position, it makes it most likely.
Infromation from RCAHMS (DE), March 2005
