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Edinburgh, Cramond Island, Cramond Battery Barracks, Domestic Site
Military Camp (First World War)
Site Name Edinburgh, Cramond Island, Cramond Battery Barracks, Domestic Site
Classification Military Camp (First World War)
Alternative Name(s) Forth Defences, Middle, Cramond Island
Canmore ID 280347
Site Number NT17NE 71.07
NGR NT 1967 7865
NGR Description Centred NT 1967 7865
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/280347
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT17NE 71.07 centred 1967 7875
The foundations and bases of huts for the barracks are situated to the N of the track leading to the gun-emplacement.
The barracks (accommodation huts are visible on vertical air photographs (106G/Scot/UK 117, 5017-18, flown 29 May 1946).
Information to RCAHMS via e-mail from Mr J Dods (Cramond Heritage Society), April 2006; RCAHMS (DE), April 2006.
Note (23 August 2013)
The accommodation camp for the First World War coast battery is depicted on a War Department map dated 30 July 1915 (The National Archives WO 78/4417) to the W of the gun emplacements. It comprised a barrack block for 30 plus men, kitchen building, a canteen building with bread, meats stores and an Artificer workshop attached, an officer's quarters building, a telephone room, ammunition building or magazine to N. An earth closet building lay to the S and an engine house lay to the W.
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 23 August 2013.
Project (March 2013 - September 2013)
A project to characterise the quantity and quality of the Scottish resource of known surviving remains of the First World War. Carried out in partnership between Historic Scotland and RCAHMS.
Field Visit (31 August 2022)
The location of the First World War accommodation camp lies within an area of Cramond Island that is largely choked with rank vegetation and of the buildings mentioned in previous reports only the brick-built latrine (NT 19670 78614) was identified on the date of visit. Other than one part which stands at least 1.8m in height and probably originally supported a water tank, the walls have been reduced to their lower courses.
Formerly included in this record, the remains of the Second World War accommodation camp are now covered by the record NT17NE 71.13.
Visited by HES Archaeological Survey (J. Sherriff, A. McCaig) 31 August 2022.
