Nigg Battery
Engine House (Second World War)
Site Name Nigg Battery
Classification Engine House (Second World War)
Alternative Name(s) Cromarty Defences; Dunskeath Castle; Norwegian Battery; Fort Nigg
Canmore ID 365260
Site Number NH86NW 10.18
NGR NH 80243 68946
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/365260
- Council Highland
- Parish Nigg (Ross And Cromarty)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Field Visit (30 March 2019)
This pile of reinforced cast concrete and brick rubble, situated in dune grassland 20m SSE of the U1456 public road, is all that remains of an engine-house. The broken flat roof overlies the brick walls of the building, although fragments of these on the SE and NW, together with two concrete engine plinths, can be glimpsed beneath the detritus. The building is depicted on an aerial photograph (CPE/Scot/UK/0293 SFFO 0045) flown on 17 September 1947.
The Cromarty Petroleum Company purchased the land in 1978 and, like other buildings forming part of the battery, it was demolished by bulldozers between March and May in that year [Aberdeen Press and Journal, Saturday 13 May 1978, p.1).
Visited by HES, Survey and Recording (ATW, AKK, KLG), 30 March 2019
