Monument record TR 34 NE 327 - Stag Point Battery

This battery was built to emplace two 6 inch guns with overhead cover, the magazines below ground at the side of each emplacement. The Battery Observation Post is set in the cliff face between the two guns. The domestic camp site was behind the gun emplacements. The site is now a Boy Scout Camp and some remains can be seen of the battery. Guns installed in March 1941, removed around 1944.
Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : No
How accessed for survey :
Tourism Potential :
Condition : Destroyed
Date of visit : 23/05/05

2 x 6in Emergency Battery. No.2 gun emplacement survives. Trench system in wood. Some remains of hutted camp.

WW2 Battery, nr Kingsdown Scout Camp. 2 x 6 emergency Battery. No. 2 gun emplacement survives. Trench system in wood, some remains of hutted camp. Made of concrete and in fair condition.On cliff edge at Kingsdown Scout Camp, Kingsdown. (1)

Stagg Point (Kingsdown) coastal battery located at TR 379 482. This was an emergency battery built during the Second World War as part of Eastern Command's coastal defences. The battery was operational by 1942 and mounted two 6-inch guns. It was manned by 234 Battery of 563 Coast Regiment.
No. 1 gun emplacement was located at TR 3790 4810 and No. 2 gun at TR 3790 4825. The Depression Rangefinder was positioned at TR 3790 4820. (2)

Aerial photography from 1978 shows that the site is currently used as a camp site and no features of the battery remain. (3)

<1> Verbal Communication (Verbal communication). SKE14132.

<2> Verbal Communication (Verbal communication). Ske14132.

<3> Council for British Archaeology, 2002, Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). SKE32029.