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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 772490
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NT17NE 71.02 1973 7868
Situated some 60-70m SW of Cramond Battery (see NT17NE 71.00) are the remains of Dalmeny Battery (for World War One Dalmeny Battery at South Queensferry see NT17NW 177). All that survives are two earth mounds of the two gun emplacements.
The battery formed part of the anti-ship defences covering the channel between Cramond Island and Inchmickery. Two 12 pounder guns were mounted in two temporary emplacements, with, in addition three degree concentric beams from LCD lamps situated near the site of the exisiting No.3 and No.4 emplacements. These lamps were powered from a temporary engine room.
J A Guy 1997; NMRS MS 810/5, 56-9; WO 192/253, PRO WO 78/5164
The two gun batteries along with the associated accommodation camps, engine houses, searchlight platforms and ancillery buildings are visible on post-war RAF vertical air photographs (106G/Scot/UK 117, 5017-18, flown 29 May 1946).
Information from RCAHMS (DE), December 2001
Situated some 60-70 m SW of Cramond Battery (NT71.00) are the remains of Dalmeny Battery (for WW1 Dalmeny Battery was at South Queensferry see NT17NW177). The reinforced concrete gun emplacements are buried beneath earth mounds although their upperworks are clearly visible when the vegetation has died down in the autumn and winter. The shelters and magazine complex for the more westerly of the two may be entered via a hole in the ground to the right of the path leading from number 1 engine room to the flight of steps which lead to engine room number 2 ( at aprox NT 1973 7871).
The battery formed part of the anti-ship defences covering the channel between Cramond Island & Inchmickery. Two 12-pounder guns were installed on the original First World War emplacements. Illumination for these guns was initially supplied from 2 temporary three degree concentrated beam searchlights, adjacent to the existing No3 and No4 light emplacements, and powered by a temporary engine room. These temporary installations were dispensed with when the permanent lighting system was installed.
Information to RCAHMS via e-mail from Mr J Dods (Cramond Heritage Society), April 2006
