Gun Battery

This Gun Battery was constructed around 1889-1891 for coastal defence. It was designed to blend in with the landscape almost being invisible from long distance this was known as Twydall Profile. The battery was surrounded by a ditch and an unclimbable fence.

The Battery was armed with a total of six breech loading guns, two 10inch and four 6inch. These guns were mounted on disappearing carriages which allowed the guns to remain hidden for aiming and reloading but which were raised above the parapet for firing. In 1900 the 6inch guns were removed and their emplacements were converted to hold standard 6inch Breech Loading guns on Central Pivot mountings. At either end of the battery there were positions for 3pdr QF guns, these may have possibly been used for practice or land defence.

Below the gun emplacements there were magazines, war shelters, accommodation rooms and to the rear was the cookhouse and battery office.

By 1903 the 10inch guns were declared obsolete and dismantled, the same fate met the 6inch guns around 1909 and the battery was completely disarmed by 1913.

During WWII the battery was used by the local population as an unofficial air raid shelter.