Note

Date 1 August 2013

Event ID 962979

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

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Originally thought to be practice trenches these were part of the fixed landward defences of the coast battery at South Sutor. Positioned across the ridge on the SE side of Gallow Hill they made use of the land to provided a strong firing position. The remains of a wall to the S of Cromarty Mains farm is all that is known to have survived of the defences.

The NE trench system visible on the aerial photographs is much more complex than the plans suggest.

For the line between Newton of Cromarty to the Cromarty Firth shoreline see NH76NE 297.01.

Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 1 August 2013.