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Latitude: 56.006 / 56°0'21"N
Longitude: -2.5129 / 2°30'46"W
OS Eastings: 368112
OS Northings: 679348
OS Grid: NT681793
Mapcode National: GBR ND4V.5J8
Mapcode Global: WH8W0.C9MK
Plus Code: 9C8V2F4P+CR
Entry Name: Battery, Lamer Island, Dunbar Harbour
Listing Name: Lamer Island, the Battery
Listing Date: 5 February 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 360917
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24831
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200360917
Location: Dunbar
County: East Lothian
Town: Dunbar
Electoral Ward: Dunbar and East Linton
Traditional County: East Lothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure Artillery battery
Andrew Fraser 1781. D-plan bastion, rounded on NW coastal
side, small projection to S corner. Large squared sandstone
rubble in courses; some ovolo coping remaining. Arched,
central entrance to SW with alternating long and short
voussoirs. 16 pierced embrasure ornament openings.
INTERIOR: gun platform at higher level of yard, supported by
rubble walling from ramp areas. Barrel-vaulted basement-range
to SE corner. Former 2-storey house at S corner later
addition, now a shell; 2 embrasures altered for windows.
Built in later part of American War of Independence.
Unoccupied by mid 19th century (1853 OS map); area used for
hospital, 1893 for infectious diseases, 1906 Casual Sick
House, Military Hospital.
Pier originally to E approached from levelled rocks to SE;
NW side protected by a wall, now fragmentary. Washed away in
storm circa 1914-18.
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