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South Sutor, Coast Battery, Huts
Military Camp (First World War)
Site Name South Sutor, Coast Battery, Huts
Classification Military Camp (First World War)
Alternative Name(s) Cromarty Defences; Fort South Sutor; Site No. 3
Canmore ID 331834
Site Number NH86NW 11.17
NGR NH 80824 67271
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/331834
- Council Highland
- Parish Cromarty
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Note (25 July 2013)
The military camp for the 4-inch QF (Quick Firing) Coast Battery lies uphill and to the W of the gun emplacements (see NH86NW 11.08). Constructed on a steep N facing slope the camp comprised officers quarters (NH 80845 67251), NCO and men’s quarters (NH 80821 67272), a cookhouse (NH 80840 67278), latrines (NH 80837 67286), power house (see NH86NW 11.19) and a stairway beside a slipway (incline) down which the guns, machinery, stores and construction materials must have been brought.
The concrete blocks that supported the wooden slipway can be traced down the hillside. Where the slope was cut into and the terraces built for the buildings are still visible as earthwork features. The pathways to the gun emplacement and steps beside the cook house are still extant.
A later structure on the site of the power house comprising a large concrete base with a brick building of unknown purpose constructed on top may date to a later building phase during the First World War or a Second World War building which was abandoned and unroofed by August 1945 (106G/UK/751, 6035-6037, flown 31 August 1945).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 25 July 2013.
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.
