Note
Date 29 July 2013
Event ID 962898
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
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The 4-inch QF (Quick Firing) battery (site No. 2) lies above cliffs on a steep S facing slope overlooking the narrowest point of the entrance into the Cromarty Firth. The battery comprised four 4-inch guns, grouped in two pairs located above the rock cut magazine, located just above the cliffs at the bottom of the site. Access to the magazine below was to the rear of the emplacements down steeps to a open area partially covered by a canopy. At least two rooms exist under the emplacements, one of which is a windowless magazine and the other may be a crew shelter.
The holdfast for each gun and the concrete apron are still extant, as is a bank of earth between the guns of each pair.
The Battery Observation Post may have exist uphill and mid-way between the guns emplacements.
Above, on a series of terraces, is the remains of the military camp (see NH86NW 9.18).
The two pairs of QF guns covered the N side of the entrance to the Cromarty Firth, another pair being on the South Sutor (see NH86NW 11.08).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 29July 2013.
