Anti-submarine Defences at Cramond Island

Category

Library Item

Item no

40860

Title

Anti-submarine defences at Cramond Island

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1999

Size

20.0 x 30.4 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Cramond Island can be reached by a causeway at low tide. It is uninhabited. Most of the structures on the island were built at the outbreak of World War II. The concrete teeth along the edge of the causeway were built to prevent small boats or submarines passing at high tide.

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