Nigg Battery
Gun Crew Accommodation (Second World War), Nissen Hut (Second World War)
Site Name Nigg Battery
Classification Gun Crew Accommodation (Second World War), Nissen Hut (Second World War)
Alternative Name(s) Cromarty Defences; Dunskeath Castle; Norwegian Battery; Fort Nigg
Canmore ID 365270
Site Number NH86NW 10.28
NGR NH 80502 69070
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/365270
- 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 building platform is situated in rough pasture 23m E of a silage clamp (NH86NW 23). It is rectangular on plan and measures at least 9m from NW to SE by 4.6m transversely within brick walls 0.23 thick and 0.1m high. There are three large slabs of concrete on the SE which possibly derive from the W gun emplacement (NH86NW 10.9).
An undated sketch map of the battery in the Fort Record Book held at the National Archives at Kew (WO192/248) identifies this building as ‘9 Gun Shelter’, while It is shown to have been as a Nissen Hut 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.
