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Nigg Battery

Military Camp (20th Century)

Site Name Nigg Battery

Classification Military Camp (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Cromarty Defences; Dunskeath Castle

Canmore ID 171176

Site Number NH86NW 10.01

NGR NH 8031 6897

NGR Description Centred NH 8031 6897

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Nigg (Ross And Cromarty)
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Ross And Cromarty
  • Former County Ross And Cromarty

Archaeology Notes

NH86NW 10.01 centred 8031 6897

Roughly square concrete plinth c. 3m by 3m and another possible one nearby, 8m to East. Several large brick and concrete lumps nearby. Probably destroyed pillbox or similar.

CFA/MORA Coastal Assessment Survey 1998.

Part of the hutted camp is visible on RAF vertical air photographs (106G/UK 751, 6038-6039, flown 31 August 1945) situated in an area of sand dunes.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), October 2004.

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