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Forth Defences, Middle, Braefoot Point Battery

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Magazine (20th Century), Tramway (20th Century)

Site Name Forth Defences, Middle, Braefoot Point Battery

Classification Magazine (20th Century), Tramway (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Forth Defences; World War I

Canmore ID 271603

Site Number NT18SE 25.03

NGR NT 17878 83493

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/271603

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Oblique aerial view centred on battery with the observation posts and buildings visible through the trees, taken from the SSW.
Oblique aerial view centred on battery with the observation posts and buildings visible through the trees, taken from the SSW.Oblique aerial view centred on battery with the observation posts and buildings visible through the trees, taken from the S.View of magazine from south, with tramway in foreground.View from west showing how the magazine has been set into the quarried slope to provide increased protection for the building.Oblique aerial view centred on battery with the observation posts and buildings visible through the trees, taken from the W.View of magazine from south, with tramway in foreground.View from south along tramway to blockhouse and magazineOblique aerial view centred on battery with the observation posts and buildings visible through the trees, taken from the WSW.Detail of tramway from east.S end of magazine from WView looking south on to the roof of the magazine showing how the building is cut into the slopeOblique aerial view centred on battery with the observation posts and buildings visible through the trees, taken from the SW.Detail of boot scraper View of opening in rear wall of magazineOblique aerial view centred on battery with the observation posts and buildings visible through the trees, taken from the S.View along main facade of the magazine, from south west.

Administrative Areas

  • Council Fife
  • Parish Dalgety
  • Former Region Fife
  • Former District Dunfermline
  • Former County Fife

Archaeology Notes

NT18SE 25.03 17878 83493

The battery magazine is situated is a rock cut rectangular recess about 50m NW of the northern gun-emplacement.

Measuring about 25m by 8.5m N-S overall, it is built of stone and has a flat roof. All windows and doors have been recently filled with breeze blocks.

A 52cm gauge tramway links the magazine to the gun-emplacements (NT 17872 83484 to NT 17877 83414). The rails are set in concrete and at the rear of the southern emplacement it divides into two lines. The tramway is depicted on the current OS 1:2500 scale digital map and was used to transport ammunition from the magazine to the ready-use lockers on the face of the curtain wall between the gun-emplacements.

Visited by RCAHMS (DE), March 2005

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Project (March 2013 - September 2013)

A project to characterise the quantity and quality of the Scottish resource of known surviving remains of the First World War. Carried out in partnership between Historic Scotland and RCAHMS.

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