More information : (TA 2728 3748) Coast artillery searchlight.
This single storey rectangular building was situated on the clifftop,
and was positioned to the north of the main battery complex. The
seaward side had a semi circular wall with metal shutters through
which the searchlight would shine. The building was of brick
construction with a flat concrete roof and housed 90cm DEL's. The
site was plotted from aerial photographs dated 1945 by the Fortress
Studies Group, the FSG also visited the site during the 1992
Holderness Survey, they found the site to be totally destroyed.
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The monument is also visible as an upstanding structure on air photographs examined as part of the Rapid Coastal Assessment Survey of the Yorkshire and Humber Estuary.
Due to coastal erosion the monument no longer survives in situ.
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