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North Sutor, Coast Battery
Weapons Pit (First World War)
Site Name North Sutor, Coast Battery
Classification Weapons Pit (First World War)
Alternative Name(s) Cromarty Defences; Fort North Sutor, Site No. 1
Canmore ID 363512
Site Number NH86NW 9.53
NGR NH 82126 69029
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/363512
- Council Highland
- Parish Nigg (Ross And Cromarty)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Field Visit (12 March 2019)
This bracken- and grass-grown weapons formed part of the defences of the battery introduced by the Admiralty during World War I. It is roughly oval on plan, measuring 3m from WNW to ESE by 2m transversely and up to 0.3m in depth, but there is no trace of a low protective bank as seen at comparable sites (e.g. NH86NW 9.50 and 52).
An undated map entitled 'Cromarty North Sutor Sites Nos 1 & 2' preserved in the Fort Record Book (WO78/5192) held by the National Archives at Kew shows that this weapons pit was situated in a triangular 'break-out' at the NE corner of the World War I security fence that delimited the battery (NE86NW 22.27)
Visited by HES, Survey and Recording (ATW, AKK), 12 March 2019.
