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Braefoot Point Battery, Telephone Exchange
Telephone Exchange (First World War)
Site Name Braefoot Point Battery, Telephone Exchange
Classification Telephone Exchange (First World War)
Canmore ID 373386
Site Number NT18SE 25.16
NGR NT 17814 83410
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/373386
- Council Fife
- Parish Dalgety
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Dunfermline
- Former County Fife
Field Visit (9 August 2022)
The battery telephone exchange was situated on the W side of the site some 23m SE of the barracks (NT18SE 25.06). Standing on a platform cut into the natural slope to a depth of 1.2m on the NE, the building is constructed of concrete blocks and measures 3.5m square over walls 0.25m thick and 3.11m high to the underside of its slightly overhanging flat roof. There is a doorway at the NE end of the SE side and a small vestibule with a doorway in its SW side. In the interior there is a fireplace (0.45m wide) in the middle of the NW side; cables have entered the building at the foot of the NE side.
Visited by HES Archaeological Survey (J. Sherriff, A. McCaig), 9 August 2022.
Ordnance Survey 1918. 1:360 scale plan of Special Survey War Department Site at Braefoot Point, Fifeshire - NLS: MapArea.C18:13(05).
Measured Survey (9 August 2022)
HES surveyed the telephone exchange at Braefoot Point Battery on 9 August 2022 with tape and laser distance measurer at a scale of 1:50. The resultant plan was redrawn in vector graphics software at a scale of 1:100.
