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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 831101
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/831101
NT18SE 25.03 17878 83493
The battery magazine is situated is a rock cut rectangular recess about 50m NW of the northern gun-emplacement.
Measuring about 25m by 8.5m N-S overall, it is built of stone and has a flat roof. All windows and doors have been recently filled with breeze blocks.
A 52cm gauge tramway links the magazine to the gun-emplacements (NT 17872 83484 to NT 17877 83414). The rails are set in concrete and at the rear of the southern emplacement it divides into two lines. The tramway is depicted on the current OS 1:2500 scale digital map and was used to transport ammunition from the magazine to the ready-use lockers on the face of the curtain wall between the gun-emplacements.
Visited by RCAHMS (DE), March 2005
