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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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Type COAST ARTILLERY BATTERY
Status Extant
Condition Extant but condition unknown
Source Defence of Britain Archive
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Coast Artillery Battery Situated at the S end of Cramond Island, on a rock outcrop known as The Knoll overlooking the channe Coastal Battery Unknown Extant but condition unknown BunkerAtlas historical bunker military heritage