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Scotstown, Banff Links, Store Building
Magazine (19th Century) - (20th Century)(Possible), Storehouse (Early 20th Century)
Site Name Scotstown, Banff Links, Store Building
Classification Magazine (19th Century) - (20th Century)(Possible), Storehouse (Early 20th Century)
Canmore ID 230526
Site Number NJ66SE 424
NGR NJ 67665 64492
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/230526
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Banff
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Banffshire
Field Visit (September 2022)
Former store building, possibly an ammunition store, built in circa 1900. It is a single-storey, single-bay, rubble-built building with finely finished margins, a doorway to the north and the remainder blank, and a round-arched concrete roof.
NJ 67665 64492 Visited during fieldwork by SCAPE. Brick built roof with a concrete outer surface. The magazine must be associated with the gun battery (2 guns) and flag staff depicted on the 1st edition OS surveyed 1866. Part of the coastal defence against the threat of the third Napoleonic invasion in the 1850s.
Information from S. Boyd and J. Hambly - Scottish Coastal Archaeology and the Problem of Erosion (SCAPE).
