Rubha Nan Sasan, Cove Battery

This grass-grown concrete building platform is situated immediately SE of the road (NG89SW 50) leading to the coastal battery. It is rectangular on plan, measuring 20m from NE to SW by 13m transversely and is raised up to 0.8m high on the NW, where a flight of steps off-centred to the NE originally provided access to three buildings on its summit that were reached by a path running around its outer edge. There is also what may be a loading platform 4m SW of these steps and a ramp at the platform’s W corner. Little more than the floors of the three buildings survive. The most northerly (NG 81437 91953), which is rectangular on plan and measures 11m from NW to SE by 5m transversely, has rebates for sill-beams along its edges. A matching pair of floors to the SW (NG 81428 91948, NG 81433 91943) are also rectangular on plan and measure 11m from NE to SW by 4.5m transversely. Both have rebates for sill-beams along their edges, while the concrete fireback of a stove 0.9m high stands on the central axis of the floor to the NW, less than 2m from its NE end. A short length of a brick-built partition running from NE to SW is situated less than 1m to its NW. In addition, the floor of a fourth building (NG 81434 91936), measuring 2.8m square with rebates for sill-beams along its edges, projects from the SE wall of the platform close to its S corner where it is reached by a short flight of steps.

Visited by HES, Survey and Recording (ATW, AKK), 6 September 2019.