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North Sutor, Coast Battery

Naafi Building (Second World War)

Site Name North Sutor, Coast Battery

Classification Naafi Building (Second World War)

Alternative Name(s) Cromarty Defences, Fort North Sutor, Site No. 1

Canmore ID 364205

Site Number NH86NW 9.93

NGR NH 81888 68963

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/364205

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View from the WSW
View from the WSWThe remains of a shrunken timber post in the NNW wallPlan of North Sutor Coast Battery, Site No.1View from the ENEThe ablutions block at the NNE corner from the WSW

Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Nigg (Ross And Cromarty)
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Ross And Cromarty
  • Former County Ross And Cromarty

Activities

Field Visit (26 March 2019)

This building, which formed part of the camp introduced by the Army to sustain the battery during the Second World War, is situated about 4m ENE of the NAAFI Staff Hut (NH86NW 9.90) and immediately SSE of the track leading from the North Sutor Battery Site No.1 to Site No.2 (NH86NW 9.48). It is rectangular on plan and measures about 18.5m from ENE to WSW by 11.3m transversely within grass-grown brick walls 0.23m thick and up to 0.4m high. There is a corridor 1.75m wide running the length of the building on the SSE and the remains of an ablutions block with a concrete floor is attached to its NNE corner.

The building is annotated ‘NAAFI’ (i.e. Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes) on an undated sketch map entitled ‘Layout of Fort North Sutor’ within the Fort Record Book held in The National Archives at Kew (WO192/248). It is also depicted on two RAF aerial photographs (106G/RAF/0751/6039-40) flown on 31 August 1945

Visited by HES, Survey and Recording (ATW, AKK), 26 March 2019

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