World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Date 1 August 2013
Event ID 962976
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/962976
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.
Information from HS/RCAHMS World War One Audit Project (GJB) 1 August 2013.
