What is recorded here

Butts Battery stands inside Edinburgh Castle as an 18th Century military structure, built to point guns outward rather than decorate a room. Stone chambers and narrow openings suggest men loaded powder under pressure while the city watched from below. The battery still belongs to the castle’s defensive logic: height, reach and readiness.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh Castle, Butts Battery as Battery (18th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Edinburgh Castle, Butts Battery was constructed in the 18th century as part of the fortifications of Edinburgh Castle, a historically significant military and royal site in Scotland. It is remembered for its role in the ongoing development and defense of one of Scotland's most iconic and strategically important castles.

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