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Nigg Battery
Engine House (Second World War)
Site Name Nigg Battery
Classification Engine House (Second World War)
Alternative Name(s) Cromarty Defences; Dunskeath Castle; Norwegian Battery; Fort Nigg
Canmore ID 365315
Site Number NH86NW 10.43
NGR NH 80360 68962
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/365315
- 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)
An undated sketch map of the battery in the Fort Record Book held at the National Archives at Kew (WO192/248) identifies an engine-house at this location (21. Engine Room), but no trace of it was observed on the date of visit. It was probably constructed to deliver power to the E searchlight emplacement (NH86NW 10.3) situated just above the foreshore 225m to the ESE. It is shown to have been a flat-roofed building on an aerial photograph (CPE/Scot/UK/0293 SFFO 0045) flown on 17 September 1947 and it is also illustrated before demolition on an aerial photograph (SC2087406) taken in 1972, which forms part of the John Dewar collection curated by HES.
Visited by HES, Survey and Recording (ATW, AKK, KLG), 30 March 2019.
