Caldarvan, Loch End
Anti Aircraft Battery (20th Century)
Site Name Caldarvan, Loch End
Classification Anti Aircraft Battery (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) N8; Clyde Aa Defences
Canmore ID 107529
Site Number NS48SW 19
NGR NS 4239 8311
NGR Description Centred on NS 4239 8311
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/107529
- Council West Dunbartonshire
- Parish Kilmaronock (Dumbarton)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Dumbarton
- Former County Dunbartonshire
NS48SW 19 centred 4239 8311
A four gun emplacement anti-aircraft battery with command position is visible on vertical air photographs (CPE/Scot/312, 5146-8, flown 1948), 200m S of Rosedale farmsteading. The gun position is also depicted on the current (chart) edition of thr OS 1:10000 map (1976).
Information from RCAHMS (DE) 12 August 1998
This World War II heavy anti-aircraft battery was situated in a field to the S of Rosedale and E of Easter Blairquhanan farmsteading. All the remains of this battery have been cleared, but the hut bases of the accommodation camp still survive in the grounds of Rosedale.
J Guy 2001; NMRS MS 810/11, Part 3, 207-8
The four gun-emplacements and accommodation camp are also visible on a further run of postwar RAF vertical air photographs (106G/UK 1317, 5350-1, flown 27 March 1946). Also visible is an octagonal shaped Gl-mat (gun-laying) with centrally located radar ramp, which was situated in the field immediately NW of the gun-emplacements. The accommodation camp was along the public road to the N, around what is now known as 'Rosedale' (OS 1:10000 scale map [1976].
The battery was demolished in the late 1980s and the site is now grassed over.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), December 2002
