Verne High Angle Battery

Situated close to the Verne Citadel, the battery is Grade II Listed,[1] and forms part of the citadel's scheduled monument status.

Having been constructed within a disused quarry, the battery's guns were hidden from enemy's view.

The "high angle" that the RML 9 inch 12 ton guns fired at ensured shells dropped down to inflict maximum damage on the vulnerable upper decks of an enemy vessel.

[5] With the invention of smaller craft like torpedo boats, the guns were less likely to score a hit, resulting in the battery's decommissioning in 1906.

[5] From 1918, the battery was used for storing field guns from France and in the 1960s one of the emplacements was used for testing the capsules in which nuclear material was transported.