Scremerston Gun Emplacement at Cocklawburn near Berwick upon Tweed
This was built on the elevated site of a previous kiln battery where lime was produced until the early 1900's.
It is built on the top of a spoil heap in an old limestone quarry right on the coast and can be seen for miles around.
The gun house sits on top of a loading platform for three limestones kilns which were still in place when the gun house was built, but later demolished by the Northumberland Council in 1981. The gun house faces Cheswick Sands and Lindisfarne to the south-east and overlooks a substantial earthen ramp which was once topped with the limeworks tramway. The tramway was hauled by an engine sat on the platform where the gun house sits today. A network of largely overgrown trenches leading to a small pillbox can still be found forward of the gunhouse.
This was built on the elevated site of a previous kiln battery where lime was produced until the early 1900's.
It is built on the top of a spoil heap in an old limestone quarry right on the coast and can be seen for miles around.
The gun house sits on top of a loading platform for three limestones kilns which were still in place when the gun house was built, but later demolished by the Northumberland Council in 1981. The gun house faces Cheswick Sands and Lindisfarne to the south-east and overlooks a substantial earthen ramp which was once topped with the limeworks tramway. The tramway was hauled by an engine sat on the platform where the gun house sits today. A network of largely overgrown trenches leading to a small pillbox can still be found forward of the gunhouse.
