World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Date 6 September 2013
Event ID 964072
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/964072
The Royal Naval Armament Depot at Crombie was established just to the west of Rosyth Dockyard. A map of the defences of Crombie dated May 1916 also shows the principal buildings. At this date the Depot seems to have comprised: a line of large roughly square buildings along the foreshore, below the cliff between NT 0370 8429 and NT0450 8421 (four of these either survive or have been replaced on the same footprint); a line of 20 small square buildings along the north side of a track above the cliff (NT 0377 8437 to NT 0449 8418); a group of six buildings to the north and NE of Kinniny Point, from which springs a single jetty (NT104.01) some of which may survive in part); a line of seven small square buildings (NT 1506 8432 to NT 0535 8431). Limited accommodation seems to have been provided, labelled 'military hutments' centred at NT 9469 8438.
The landward side of the Depot was guarded by a barbed wire entanglement and five blockhouses (NT 03367 84673, NT 03790 84672, NT 04650 84375, NT 05147 84441 and NT 05523 84369), and three anti-aircraft positions were marked (at NT 03993 84371, NT 04712 84301 and NT 04733 84328). The blockhouses were made of timber, surrounded by banks of soil.
Information from HS/RCAHMS World War One Audit Project (GJB) 6 September 2013.
