Nigg Battery
Weapons Pit (Second World War)
Site Name Nigg Battery
Classification Weapons Pit (Second World War)
Alternative Name(s) Cromarty Defences; Dunskeath Castle; Norwegian Battery; Fort Nigg
Canmore ID 365253
Site Number NH86NW 10.24
NGR NH 80508 69124
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/365253
- 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 grass-grown weapons pit is set into a NW-facing slope 35m NW of a silage clamp (NH86NW 23). It measures 1.5m from NNE to SSW by 1.5m transversely and 0.3m deep. There is a spread bank on the NNW measuring 0.9m thick and 0.2m high.
Visited by HES, Survey and Recording (ATW, AKK, KLG), 30 March 2019.
