Proudfoot, Battery
Battery (19th Century)
Site Name Proudfoot, Battery
Classification Battery (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) North Head; Wick Bay
Canmore ID 9217
Site Number ND35SE 78
NGR ND 3818 5090
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/9217
- Council Highland
- Parish Wick
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND35SE 78 3818 5090
A four-gun battery for the drilling in big gun practice of the 1st Caithness Artillery Volunteers. Inside a parapet wall of stone, sloping embankment outward.
Name Book 1872.
Destroyed.
Visited by OS 17 August 1982.
Reference: Name book, Caithness, No. 13, p. 190.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
