Cr346 Batterie 'M.K.B. Kerbonn' (French Batterie Souterraine)

The French batterie had its ammunition, powder & shot kept in underground storage (yellow). A sloping roadway ran down to a tunnel with storage rooms. Then the ammunition could be collected when needed and taken via an aerial rail system to a lift coming out by the gun line and then another narrow gauge hand pushed railway delivered the ammunition to each of the three guns.

Probably the ammunition would be delivered by horse and wagon.

Half way down the tunnel with the iron fittings in the roof for the aerial railway.

On the left a small room.

This part is just rock hewn out of the rock and looks unfinished, I think this continues on and comes out on the far side of the battery.

Ammunition casemate on the left and the tunnel to the gun line.

A large room with a wooden air vent above the door.

Nicely finished tunnel.

Looking up at vertical shaft. The ammunition would have been hoisted up to the gun line above.

 

A small fort covering the tunnel entrance.