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Helensburgh
Searchlight Platform (Second World War)(Possible)
Site Name Helensburgh
Classification Searchlight Platform (Second World War)(Possible)
Canmore ID 357151
Site Number NS38SW 160
NGR NS 30405 81866
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/357151
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Rhu
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Dumbarton
- Former County Dunbartonshire
Field Visit (26 October 2017)
This sub-rectangular, concrete platform is situated on the summit of a tall, rounded brick and stone-built bastion at a point where the revetment wall of the Clyde estuary zig-zags and thus provides a clear view WNW towards Gare Loch and Rosneath. It measures up to 5m from NW to SE by 3.7m transversely, within a curved parapet on the SW measuring 0.45m high and up to 0.85m thick. It is raised 1.1m above the ground level on the NE where it is supported by two concrete buttresses. There are no traces of any fittings.
The bastion is shown in its present form on the 3rd edition of the OS 25-inch map (Dunbartonshire 1898, 017.06).
Visited by HES, Survey and Recording (ATW, AMcC) 26 October 2017
