This HAA Battery was sited to protect Weymouth harbour at the highest point of the Isle of Portland close to the citadel and right next to the high angle battery. There are six gun emplacements, four 1941 pattern and two mobile square types. Pictures are of three of the former and one of the latter. The command post appears to be standard but has had a lean-to structure built on to it. No magazines or evidence of the GL radar are present.
The site appears to be used to dump junk and keep a few chickens which could be heard in one of the emplacements but weren't approached, hence the lack of pictures of the fourth static emplacement. Each part of the site is wired off which suggested that whoever uses it wouldn't take kindly to wanderers but there weren't any of the expected Private Property Keep Out! or Trespassers will be shot! signs you might have expected, so I'm not sure the place is privately owned at all since it's in the middle of common land.
Access steps from the footpath to the high angle battery.
DSCF1431 by cptpies, on Flickr
DSCF1430 by cptpies, on Flickr
Emplacement 1 1941 pattern
DSCF1417 by cptpies, on Flickr
DSCF1418 by cptpies, on Flickr
Emplacement 2 mobile gun square type
DSCF1419 by cptpies, on Flickr
DSCF1420 by cptpies, on Flickr
Emplacement 3 1941 pattern
DSCF1421 by cptpies, on Flickr
DSCF1422 by cptpies, on Flickr
Emplacement 4 1941 pattern
DSCF1423 by cptpies, on Flickr
DSCF1424 by cptpies, on Flickr
Command Post
DSCF1425 by cptpies, on Flickr
DSCF1428 by cptpies, on Flickr
Ammo Locker
DSCF1427 by cptpies, on Flickr
It's interesting to note that this is breeze block construction for the walls possibly with the cavities filled with concrete by the looks of it.
The site appears to be used to dump junk and keep a few chickens which could be heard in one of the emplacements but weren't approached, hence the lack of pictures of the fourth static emplacement. Each part of the site is wired off which suggested that whoever uses it wouldn't take kindly to wanderers but there weren't any of the expected Private Property Keep Out! or Trespassers will be shot! signs you might have expected, so I'm not sure the place is privately owned at all since it's in the middle of common land.
Access steps from the footpath to the high angle battery.
DSCF1431 by cptpies, on Flickr
DSCF1430 by cptpies, on Flickr
Emplacement 1 1941 pattern
DSCF1417 by cptpies, on Flickr
DSCF1418 by cptpies, on Flickr
Emplacement 2 mobile gun square type
DSCF1419 by cptpies, on Flickr
DSCF1420 by cptpies, on Flickr
Emplacement 3 1941 pattern
DSCF1421 by cptpies, on Flickr
DSCF1422 by cptpies, on Flickr
Emplacement 4 1941 pattern
DSCF1423 by cptpies, on Flickr
DSCF1424 by cptpies, on Flickr
Command Post
DSCF1425 by cptpies, on Flickr
DSCF1428 by cptpies, on Flickr
Ammo Locker
DSCF1427 by cptpies, on Flickr
It's interesting to note that this is breeze block construction for the walls possibly with the cavities filled with concrete by the looks of it.