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Braefoot Point Battery, Position Finding Cell
Observation Post (First World War)
Site Name Braefoot Point Battery, Position Finding Cell
Classification Observation Post (First World War)
Canmore ID 271604
Site Number NT18SE 25.04
NGR NT 17928 83528
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/271604
- Council Fife
- Parish Dalgety
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Dunfermline
- Former County Fife
NT18SE 25.04 17929 83523
A small brick and concrete secondary observation position is situated 42m upslope from the main Battery Observation Post (NT18SE 25.02). The building has a flat roof and the blocked open viewing platform faces SE.
Visited by RCAHMS (DE), March 2005
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.
Field Visit (9 August 2022)
This building, which measures 3.4 from ENE to WSW by 1.76m transversely overall, comprises a single compartment half sunk into the ground with a doorway and a window at the rear (NNW) and an opening on the SSE that spans the entire width of the front. All the openings are blocked. The flat roof (0.27m thick) slopes from the rear to the front where it projects to form a canopy. To the rear of the compartment, also sunk into the ground, is an unroofed vestibule which is approached from the WSW by a rock-cut path 6m in length by 1.1m in width and up to 0.7m in depth.
Visited by HES Archaeological Survey (J. Sherriff, A. McCaig), 9 August 2022.
Ordnance Survey 1918. 1:360 scale plan of Special Survey War Department Site at Braefoot Point, Fifeshire - NLS: MapArea.C18:13(05).
War Office 1912 Plan, elevations and other details of the proposed gun battery at Braefoot Point. The National Archives, WO 78/5169.
Measured Survey (11 August 2022)
HES surveyed the position finding cell at Braefoot Point Battery on 11 August 2022 with tape and laser distance measurer at a scale of 1:50. The resultant plan was redrawn in vector graphics software at a scale of 1:100.
