Archaeology Notes

Event ID 842551

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ66SE 446 centred 6880 6463

The 19th Century battery was situated in the area of Battery Green, possibly on the site of the present Coastguard Station.

The battery is noted in the|Statisitical Account of Scotland, 1795 as ' During the late war, a small battery was erected on the high ground near the harbour. It is nearly of the half-moon construction, with turf embrasures*, and mounts two 18 pounders, and four 12 pounders, besides two field pieces.

On one sidse of the gateway is situated the store-house and powder-magazine, on the other a guard room and officer's apartment.

Having extensive command of the bay, this battery might afford protection againast the depredations of a single privateer; but whether such works, thinly scattered along the coast, would prove of sibstantial service in the event of invasion, is apoint somewhat problematical.

* 'The embrasure in batteries is now condemned by able engineers and the low parapet recommended in its room, so that the guns may be p[ointed in any direction within the scope of the work'.

Statistical Account 1795-98