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 365279
Site Number NH86NW 10.42
NGR NH 80580 69069
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/365279
- 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 weapons pit is situated in rough pasture 46m E of a silage clamp and is marked by a grass-grown depression measuring 7m from N to S by 5m transversely and 0.1m deep. An undated sketch map of the battery in the Fort Record Book held at the National Archives at Kew (WO192/248) identifies the depression as ‘8. Gun Pit’. It is also shown 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.
