Nigg Battery
Magazine (Second World War)(Possible), Nissen Hut (Second World War)
Site Name Nigg Battery
Classification Magazine (Second World War)(Possible), Nissen Hut (Second World War)
Alternative Name(s) Cromarty Defences; Dunskeath Castle; Norwegian Battery; Fort Nigg
Canmore ID 365252
Site Number NH86NW 10.23
NGR NH 80528 69117
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/365252
- 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 building, which is situated 21m N of a silage clamp (NH86NW 23), is represented by a partly infilled, grass-grown hollow with low banks at its E and W ends. It measures about 11m from E to W by 3m transversely. An undated sketch map of the battery in the Fort Record Book held at the National Archives at Kew (WO192/248) shows a building at approximately this location, which it identifies as ’10. Magazine’. A Nissen Hut is shown here on an aerial photograph (CPE/Scot/UK/0293 SFFO 0045) flown on 17 September 1947.
Visited by HES, Survey and Recording (ATW, AKK, KLG), 30 March 2019.
