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ZombieSazza
24-01-2010, 03:56 AM
Dubbed "The unknown".


Lossiemouth Coastal Battery lies approximately two miles west of RAF Lossiemouth and the town of Lossiemouth on the south shore of the Moray Firth. The remains also lie just north of RAF Milltown, which is now an MoD radio station, but was once a satellite airfield to RAF Lossiemouth, the pair being HMS Fulmar, and HMS Fulmar II.

The installation is also described as and Emergency Coast Battery, however the records do not describe this definition further, so the implications of the emergency description are unknown.

The battery lies behind the remains of a series of beach defences comprising pillboxes and anti-tank blocks, which still remain at numerous locations along the beach. Next to the battery is a building described as a fishing station, which dates back to at least the 1870s and would have been used for salmon netting, and which shows signs of having been modified, suggesting it was re-used as part of the battery.

The battery contained two 6-inch gun emplacements of brick and concrete construction, two searchlight emplacements, two observation posts, three engine rooms,, a magazine, and an accommodation camp to the southwest. Further building have been reported on the site, with an air raid shelter, stores, and a number of hut bases being evident. The battery was visible in RAF aerial photographs taken in 1945, and later aerial surveys completed in 1950. 227 battery was formed at Lossiemouth on May 28, 1941, and two 6-inch MK XI/V guns recorded mounted in May 1941. The battery was placed on care and maintenance in April 1945, with the guns being removed by June 1946.

The structure of the battery remains largely as described, complete with trenches which connect the magazine to the gun emplacements, and the original camouflage paint surviving on some of the buildings. Reports of the battery draw particular attention to the gun emplacements, which contain two sets of holdfast bolt rings, with the second being smaller and set to to the side of the main gun platform. This appears to be have been intended for a smaller gun, presumably to defend the site, but was never used, as the emplacement wall encroaches on the smaller mounting.

More here (http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Secrets/CoastalBatteryLossiemouth)

Made this video the first time I visited 2 or 3 weeks ago. (http://www.vimeo.com/8636229)

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Came back last week with TheSurveyor.





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skin
24-01-2010, 07:18 AM
Loadsa stuff for the pillbox heads in the pillbox thread - great stuff :thumb

Sandman
24-01-2010, 03:13 PM
Looks like some kind of Russian site with all that snow.
Is that some kind of hatch in the 2nd last pic tho?

TK421
24-01-2010, 03:45 PM
Great set of photos there, looks very serene

KingElvis
24-01-2010, 03:47 PM
That's very nice indeed.

ZombieSazza
24-01-2010, 05:43 PM
Sandman, it's a hexagonal pillbox that's sunk into the ground. :)

superkev
24-01-2010, 06:21 PM
Great pics, specially those in the snow!
Looks like theres loads to deek about there, very nice indeed! :thumb

hogofddyn_
27-01-2010, 05:20 PM
Great pics.
Snow, forests and pillboxes/bunkers? All very James Bond...
I'm sometimes up around Lossiemouth.
Guided tour pls!:P

ERNIE99_UK
27-01-2010, 05:31 PM
The anti tank blocks make it look like a major invasion site

ZombieSazza
28-01-2010, 03:14 PM
Hogofddyn, if you're ever near Lossiemouth Private Message me (I'm unemployed so I'm free when not modelling). You have the option of walking all the way down the beach which is 6 miles in length (that's what I done the first time for the snow pictures) or if you have a car we go to the Forestry Commission car park and walk a mile there. :)

Sandman
28-01-2010, 05:07 PM
Sandman, it's a hexagonal pillbox that's sunk into the ground. :)

thats not just sunk thats heading to Austrailia :laugh

coops
28-01-2010, 08:16 PM
i,m coming to Lossiemouth for a weeks holiday in August will deff be checking this place out .. :thumb

ZombieSazza
12-04-2010, 02:32 PM
Solo visit


Searchlight Position
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Engine Rooms
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Ammo Bunker
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Gun Emplacement 1
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Shelter
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Gun Emplacement 2
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Searchlight Position
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Some wires still lying around (The place is littered with wires, chicken wire and barbed wire so be careful)
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ZombieSazza
12-04-2010, 03:25 PM
Thank you, Flat-4 :)
I visit Innes Links whenever I can or when I'm in a bad mood, great place to sit and think and it has a lovely view :)

ZombieSazza
13-04-2010, 03:36 PM
Sure, thanks :)