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Saltburn
Anti Aircraft Battery (20th Century)
Site Name Saltburn
Classification Anti Aircraft Battery (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Ing1; Invergordon Defences; Balintraid
Canmore ID 116671
Site Number NH77SW 54
NGR NH 7305 7037
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/116671
- Council Highland
- Parish Rosskeen
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH77SW 54 7305 7037
A heavy anti-aircraft battery has been identified from vertical air photographs (RAF 106G/UK/751, 5067, flown 1945) in a field between Saltburn and Balintraid farm. The battery consisted of four 3.7-inch guns which were located in the W half of the field. The accommodation camp was situated on the W side of the field running N-S to the B 817 public road.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), April 1997.
Seen.
CFA/MORA Coastal Assessment Survey 1998.
This heavy anti-aircraft battery was situated in a field at Saltburn to the SW of Balintraid farmsteading. Houses have now been built on the area formerly occupied by the battery.
The battery was armed with 4 x 3.7-inch guns in four emplacements.
J Guy 2000; NMRS MS 810/10, Vol.2, 72
Documents held in the Public Record Office (PRO) provide an earliest reference to this battery of February 1940 and a latest of November 1943 (WO 166/11169). The battery was provided with a GL Mk II radar set, (WO 166/2072) though no evidence at the site could be seen on the immediate postwar air photographs.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), October 2004.
