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Forth Defences, Inner, Downing Point Battery
Ablutions Block(S) (First World War) (1914)
Site Name Forth Defences, Inner, Downing Point Battery
Classification Ablutions Block(S) (First World War) (1914)
Alternative Name(s) Forth Defences, Downing Point, Battery And Camp
Canmore ID 377378
Site Number NT18SE 24.08
NGR NT 15813 82508
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/377378
- Council Fife
- Parish Dalgety
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Dunfermline
- Former County Fife
Field Visit (6 December 2023)
Nothing is now visible of two Ablution blocks that were situated within Downing Point Battery. One (NT 15813 82508) was located immediately W of a track running S along the shoreline from Donibristle House to Downing Point, while the other (NT 15757 82525) lay to the NW of the firing trench (NT18SE 24.20) about 5m ENE of the Dining Room and Cook House (NT18SE 24.15). Both were rectangular on plan, but the first had a porch on the ESE and measured about 7m from NNE to SSW by 5m transversely, while the second measured about 10m from NNW to SSE by 6m transversely.
Both blocks are shown on Barclay and Morris’ plan of the battery (Barclay and Morris 2019, 103 fig. 9.32; 105) based upon maps dating from 1915-16 (WO 78/5165; WO 78/4396) held by the National Archives at Kew. The 1916 map (WO 78/4396) identifies both as Ablution Blocks.
Visited by HES Archaeological Survey (A T Welfare), 6 December 2023
