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Coast Artillery Battery

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Coastal Battery

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1996 Coast Battery Gun Emplacement. The upper storey of the building is a covered concrete platform with small holdfast. This battery overlooks what was an anti-shipping barrier running between Cramond and Cramond Island. A concrete and brick 75mm gun emplacement at the N end of the anti-shipping barrier.

Comprising an overhead cover and magazines with one searchlight emplacement, covering the concrete boom. The battery was installed in 1941 to provide covering fire to the barrier and was intended to have both an anti-ship and anti-tank role.

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Coast Artillery BatterySituated at the S end of Cramond Island, on a rock outcrop known as The Knoll overlooking the channeCoastal BatteryUnknownExtant but condition unknownBunkerAtlashistorical bunkermilitary heritage