World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Date 1 August 2013
Event ID 962978
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/962978
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 of the peninsula behind the line of the Red Burn, in front of Newton of Cromarty farmhouse (see NH76NE 297.01). A second series ran from Cromarty Mains Farm SW to the south coast of the peninsula.
Information from HS/RCAHMS World War One Audit Project (GJB) 1 August 2013.
