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Forth Defences, Inner, Hound Point Battery

Military Camp(S) (First World War)

Site Name Forth Defences, Inner, Hound Point Battery

Classification Military Camp(S) (First World War)

Alternative Name(s) Forth Defences; The Warrens; Hound Point Battery, 150m W Of Fishery Cottage

Canmore ID 271551

Site Number NT17NE 70.03

NGR NT 1578 7932

NGR Description c. NT 1578 7932, NT 15680 79253 and NT 15826 79071

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Edinburgh, City Of
  • Parish Dalmeny
  • Former Region Lothian
  • Former District City Of Edinburgh
  • Former County West Lothian

Archaeology Notes

NT17NE 70.03 c.1578 7932

At least two concrete hut platforms can be seen immediately E of a track which leads S from the public path through Dalmeny Park to the gun battery.

The track has been hardcored at one time.

Visited by RCAHMS (DE, GS), November 2003

Activities

Note (20 August 2013)

In addition to the coast battery accommodation there was accommodation from soldiers manning the defences of the battery. As part of the defence of the battery an outer line of six blockhouses or pillboxes were constructed as shown on a War Office map (The National Archives WO78/4417). The map also shows three buildings which may have housed the soldiers who manned the outer line of defences. At NT 15680 79253 was the 'officer's hutment' and at NT 15826 79071 was two buildings annotated as 'Men's hutment'.

Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 20 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 (29 August 2022)

Of the ancillary buildings noted in previous accounts only the concrete floor of one was found on the date of visit, lying directly E of the former roadway and about 32m WNW of the magazine (NT17NE 70.02). The floor, the NW corner of which is broken, is set on a platform that has been dug into the natural slope to a depth of up to 1.8m. However, soil slip and rank vegetation meant that the full dimensions of the floor could not be obtained, though it measures at least 6.5m in length from N to S.

NT 1581 7909, ‘Mens’ hutment’. A group of four ‘huts’, two long and two very small, are depicted in woodland on the S side of the camp immediately S of the cairn NT17NE 5. No trace of the long buildings were seen on the date of visit but the sites of the two small buildings were identified, both now reduced to fragmentary stances. Fragments of vitreous china suggest one of the small structures was a latrine.

NT 1567 7965, ‘Officers’ hutment’. A long building, orientated WNW and ESE, is depicted on the edge of woodland about 60m N of blockhouse No.3 on the 1915 plan. No trace of it was found on the date of visit.

Visited by HES Survey and Recording (J. Sherriff, A. McCaig) 29 August 2022.

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