Nigg Battery
Ablutions Block (Second World War)
Site Name Nigg Battery
Classification Ablutions Block (Second World War)
Alternative Name(s) Cromarty Defences; Dunskeath Castle; Norwegian Battery; Fort Nigg
Canmore ID 365275
Site Number NH86NW 10.34
NGR NH 80298 68994
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/365275
- 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)
Only the NE corner of this building survives, dug into the foot of a S-facing scarp 5m N of the U1456 public road. It was rectangular on plan, but what is left measures 2.2m from E to W by 1.4m transversely over grass-grown brick walls 2m high. The remainder of the building was presumably destroyed when the public road was constructed after 1947.
An undated map of the battery in the Fort Record Book held at the National Archives at Kew (WO192/248) identifies this building as ’15. New Ablutions’ block; and it is also shown on an aerial photograph (CPE/Scot/UK/0293 SFFO 0044) flown on 17 September 1947.
Visited by HES, Survey and Recording (ATW, AKK, KLG), 30 March 2019
