Lower Battery

Lower Battery or Two Gun Battery was also part of the Fort Rodd Hill complex with Upper Battery and Belmont Battery.  The Battery stood on a small knoll some sixty feet above sea level. The Battery was built between 6th September 1895 and 31st June 1898 at a total cost of £4,419.  The battery mount two 6-inch BL Mark VI gun on Mark IV disappearing mounts.  The rear of the battery was protected by a loopholed wall, with a ‘V’ shaped caponier covering the iron entrance gate.  There was barrack accommodation of twenty four (fifty six in war) men inside the battery.  There was an underground magazine between the two gun pits.