Nigg Battery
Nissen Hut (Second World War)
Site Name Nigg Battery
Classification Nissen Hut (Second World War)
Alternative Name(s) Cromarty Defences; Dunskeath Castle; Norwegian Battery; Fort Nigg
Canmore ID 365280
Site Number NH86NW 10.39
NGR NH 80235 68979
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/365280
- 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 3.5m N of the U1456 public road. It is rectangular on plan and measures 10.5m from ENE to WSW by 4.6m transversely and is enclosed within a grass-grown bank 3.3m thick and 0.5m high. An undated sketch map of the battery in the Fort Record Book held at the National Archives at Kew (WO192/248) illustrates the building but does not identify its function. However, it is shown to have been a Nissen Hut 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.
