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North Sutor, Coast Battery
Trench (First World War)
Site Name North Sutor, Coast Battery
Classification Trench (First World War)
Alternative Name(s) Cromarty Defences; Fort North Sutor, Site No. 1
Canmore ID 364790
Site Number NH86NW 22.24
NGR NH 81876 69174
NGR Description Centred
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/364790
- Council Highland
- Parish Nigg (Ross And Cromarty)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Field Visit (26 March 2019)
Nothing can now be seen of the ‘sunken trench’ that contained the telephone and telegraph cables leading into the Naval battery which was introduced with the infrastructure by the Admiralty in World War I. It lay immediately E of the road running from the N gate (NH86NW 9.77) to the junction with the U1456 public road (NH 8196 6900 – NH 8179 6932) and its course is depicted on a sketch map of the battery entitled ‘Telephone Circuits’ held by the National Archives at Kew (ADM7/942), dated 7 May 1919. This also indicates that the Aerial Line continued N of this junction to Nigg Post Office, while the Aerial Telegraph headed W to Nigg Pier.
Visited by HES Survey and Recording (ATW, AKK) 26 March 2019.
