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Scurdie Ness
Battery (18th Century)
Site Name Scurdie Ness
Classification Battery (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Montrose Harbour Approach
Canmore ID 36225
Site Number NO75NW 16
NGR NO 7328 5669
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/36225
- Council Angus
- Parish Craig
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO75NW 16 7328 5669
(NO 7328 5669) Battery (NR) (Site of)
OS 1:10000 map (1975).
Remains of the breastwork still exist. Mr Pert (fisherman) remembers guns being in the old fort during, and after, the French war.
OS Name Book 1858.
The remains of a square earthen fort, each side being c.50' in length, is on the coast just south of the estuary of the Esk. The walls were 16' thick, and formerly c.6' high. Within it was a building used for sheltering men and storing ammunition. Outside the enclosure, and facing the mouth of the river, was an earthen rampart.
Tradition states that it was used in Cromwell's time: and it was fortified in 1745. Around 1770, a beacon tower was erected on the site.
Statistical Account (OSA) 1792; A J Warden 1882
Only a scatter of stones exists at the site of the battery - no feature survives.
Visited by OS (JLD) 26 June 1958.
Field Visit (April 1978)
Scurdie Ness NO 732 566 NO75NW 16
Nothing now survives of the battery that once stood at Scurdie Ness, guarding the mouth of the river South Esk.
RCAHMS 1978, visited April 1978
(Stat Acct, ii, 1792, 500)
