Rosneath Battery
Anti Aircraft Battery (20th Century), Military Camp (20th Century)
Site Name Rosneath Battery
Classification Anti Aircraft Battery (20th Century), Military Camp (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Clyde Postwar Aa Defences
Canmore ID 106348
Site Number NS28SE 36
NGR NS 2696 8154
NGR Description Centred NS 2696 8154
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Rosneath
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Dumbarton
- Former County Dunbartonshire
NS28SE 36 Centred 2696 8154
This post-war battery was located to the W of Culwatty Bay. The four gun emplacements lie in a small wood of fir trees to the N of what is depicted as a 'camp site' on the latest edition of the OS map, (OS 1:10000 map, 1990).
The battery consisted of four 5.25-inch guns which were radar operated.
Information from Mr J Guy August 1996
The engine room, radar room and stores are extant. The upper sections of the gun-emplacements are situated in a wooded area which was planted to hide them. The officers quarters are now private houses by Culwatty Bay.
Information from MR J Guy, November 1998
Additional information reveals that guns were mounted on this battery during 1952, probably installed during 1951. Records show that twenty 5.25-inch guns were disposed of as scrap on 16 July 1956 to McConnel of Coatbridge.
Information from Mr J A Guy, May 1999
Recorded in the course of Mr J Guy's survey of Strathclyde.
J Guy 2001; NMRS MS 810/11, Part 1, 115-16; Vol.2 (appendix), 13
The battery and camp had almost certainly been abandoned by 1954. The gun emplacements and remains of the camp are visible on postwar vertical air photographs (58/RAF 1453, 93-95, flown 31 May 1954) and the appearance of the battery and surrounding area would suggest that by this time it was inactive.
Infromation from RCAHMS (DE), March 2003