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Toward Battery
Machine Gun Post (Second World War)
Site Name Toward Battery
Classification Machine Gun Post (Second World War)
Canmore ID 352368
Site Number NS16NW 16.20
NGR NS 12194 68110
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/352368
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Dunoon And Kilmun
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
Field Visit (20 October 2016)
This machine-gun post is situated roughly midway along the west side of the inner perimeter of the gun-battery. It is clearly visible on a contemporary RAF aerial photograph (614.C) taken on 10 February 1941, which shows it as a figure-6 on plan, with the front of the post facing SW and with an entrance in its rear (NE side), placed towards the NW end. The superstructure of the emplacement was probably constructed of a mixture of materials that included sandbags, corrugated sheet metal and timber or steel/iron posts, but all traces of these have been removed. What is left is a grass-grown platform measuring about 8m from NNW to SSE by 4.8m transversely which stands at least 1m high at the front (WSW) but only 0.15m high at the rear. Rather than being the remains of the emplacement itself, this mound probably represents the levelled or terraced foundation on which the emplacement was situated. Given the similarity between this construction and another (NS16SW 16.14), which appears to have most likely have house an anti-aircraft gun or guns, this one too probably was designed to thwart attack from the air.
Visited by HES Survey and Recording (JRS, AK, AMcC) 20 October 2016.
