966565 |
RECORDING |
FIELD VISIT |
NJ 4376 5910 Black Bourock A dressed boundary stone, not sitting on any boundary, appears as noted on the 1st Edition OS map. A further stone depicted as lying by a track farther E was not found. [...] |
2011 |
963598 |
DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNTS |
SUMMARY RECORD |
Permission was given in September 1914 for the construction of a battery of two 4.7-inch guns at Downing Point, with a budget of £450. Two guns, which had been mounted at Kinghorn for 'drill and practice' were moved to Downing Point in October. A map of 1915 shows the layout of the battery. The main part of the battery occupied a very compact site only about 100m by 110m within which were the two guns (with firing arcs from ENE to SSW) and, to the north, the barracks and other accommodation for the officers and men, as well as an engine room for the Defence Electric Lights (see below) a magazine and an ammunition store. [...] |
23 August 2013 |
963420 |
DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNTS |
NOTE |
In addition to the coast battery accommodation there was accommodation from soldiers manning the defences of the battery. As part of the defence of the battery an outer line of six blockhouses or pillboxes were constructed as shown on a War Office map (The National Archives WO78/4417). The map also shows three buildings which may have housed the soldiers who manned the outer line of defences. At NT 15680 79253 was the 'officer's hutment' and at NT 15826 79071 was two buildings annotated as 'Men's hutment'. [...] |
20 August 2013 |