Monument record MHG20476 - Battery, Blar Na Cloiche

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Location

Grid reference Centred NG 8479 7905 (30m by 30m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NG87NW
Geographical Area ROSS AND CROMARTY
Old County ROSS-SHIRE
Civil Parish GAIRLOCH

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Full Description

All that could be found were mounds where the gun emplacements and command post were and some of the roads. There are five mounds of earth which mark the four gun emplacement and command post positions. Code E4. Armament was 4 x 3.7 inch guns. J A Guy, 20th Century Defences, (report nos. 1, 8 & 11)
A M Fox, Highland Council, 09.10.01.

NG87NW 32 8480 7905

An anti-aircraft battery with associated camp is depicted on the latest edition of the OS map (OS 1:10560, 1969), just to the NE of Loch Tollaidh.
Information from RCAHMS (DE) 22 April 1996

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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