Archaeology Notes
Event ID 810511
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/810511
NS28SE 39.00 From 24880 80553 to 25344 80307
NS28SE 39.01 NS 24907 80535 Gun Emplacements
NS28SE 39.02 NS 25068 80469 Gun Emplacements
NS28SE 39.03 NS 24893 80560 Observation Posts
NS28SE 39.04 NS 25191 80216 Pillbox
NS28SE 39.05 NS 25284 80241 and NS 25257 80227 Searchlight Battery
NS28SE 39.06 NS 25336 80318 Pillbox
NS28SE 39.07 NS 25283 80411 Military Camp
NS28SE 39.08 NS 24985 80503 Buildings
NS28SE 39.09 NS 25203 80366 Engine House
NS28SE 39.10 NS 25190 80380 Building
NS28SE 39.11 NS 23259 80357 Building: House
NS28SE 39.12 NS 25303 80331 Store; House
NS28SE 39.13 NS 25051 80490 Building:house
NS28SE 39.14 NS 24918 80422 Rifle Range
For outlying Portkil Battery defences see
NS28SE 39.15 Centred NS 23678 81510 Pillboxes; Building
NS28SE 39.16 Centred NS 24950 81390 Pillboxes; Trenches; Trench
NS28SE 39.17 Centred NS 25677 81140 Pillboxes; Trenches; Building
NS28SW 30 NS 2439 8134 Enclosure: pillboxes; Trenches; shieling-hut
NS28SW 5 NS 235 812 Earthwork; Pillboxes; Trenches
For other the other part of Portkil Battery, WW I gun emplacements and magazine see also NS28SW 26
This World War I coastal battery is situated to the N of Porkil Point and E of Kilcreggan. Two 6-inch and two 4.7-inch concrete gun emplacements, the Battery observation post (BOP), engine room, magazines, several other buildings with the searchlight platforms on the shore, are still extant.
The two World War I 6-inch MkVII/II guns (numbered 2406 and 2384) were installed during 1904 and removed in October 1916 then taken to the Cloch Point Battery (NS27NW 21). The two 4.7-inch QF (quick firing) VB/V also installed during 1904 were removed in 1928.
J Guy 2001; NMRS MS 810/11, Part 2, 106-7; Vol.2 (appendix), 10-11
The two 4.7-inch gun emplacements, accommodation camp, searchlight platforms and other buildings are visible on postwar vertical air photographs (CPE/Scot/ 350, 5210-5211, flown 17 April 1948). It is not known whether the battery was utilised during WW II.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), March 2003
