| 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 |
| 962976 |
DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNTS |
SUMMARY RECORD |
War Department maps of First World War field defences in Scotland (The National Archives WO 78/5193) record strong landward defences for the coast batteries on the North Sutor. It was important to protect coast defence batteries from attack by enemy troops landed to their rear. In this case, the peninsula was cut off about 4km behind the guns by a complex series of firing trenches protected by barbed wire entanglements, running from NT 84612 72380 north-west over the Hill of Nigg, as a visible earthwork on vertical aerial photography as far as NH 84062 72478. On the arable land to the west of the hill there were up to three lines of defence formed by trenches and barbed wire. The western flank of the defences was covered by a line of trenches running SSW parallel to the main road, facing NW over the Carse of Bayfield and ending at NT 81112 73600. [...] |
1 August 2013 |
| 962982 |
DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNTS |
SUMMARY RECORD |
It was important to protect coast defence batteries from attack by enemy troops landed behind them. War Department maps dated 1916 (The National Archives WO 78/5193) record that the batteries on the South Sutor were protected by a series of trenches and barbed wire entanglements. One line ran from the north coast (NH 77759 66943) of the peninsula behind the line of the Red Burn, in front of Newton of Cromarty farmhouse and S along the minor road to Eathie (NH 78379 65844). A second series ran from Cromarty Mains Farm SW to the south coast of the peninsula (see NH76NE 297.00). [...] |
1 August 2013 |
