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Nigg Battery
Trench (Second World War)
Site Name Nigg Battery
Classification Trench (Second World War)
Alternative Name(s) Cromarty Defences; Dunskeath Castle; Norwegian Battery; Fort Nigg
Canmore ID 365266
Site Number NH86NW 10.27
NGR NH 80495 69101
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/365266
- Council Highland
- Parish Nigg (Ross And Cromarty)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Field Visit (30 March 2019)
Three separate groups of corrugated iron sheets revetting the upper edge of a collapsed trench are situated in a large grass-grown natural hollow 27m WNW of a silage clamp (NH86NW 23). The hollow measures 12m from NW to SE by 8m and at least 0.35m deep.
An undated sketch map of the battery in the Fort Record Book held at the National Archives at Kew (WO192/248) identifies this as the location of ’11. Trenches’.
Visited by HES, Survey and Recording (ATW, AKK, KLG), 30 March 2019
