South east reveals a number of old gun emplacements dating from the 1870s. Evidently the guns are
of the original period although the ones on show may not have been the self same armaments from
this battery. If hostile ships, entering the heads, did not get bailed up on the Sow & Pigs Reef,
below, gunners had plenty of time to line up their targets. Curiously, even at the time the
armaments were probably obsolete. The design and conception of these old forts must surely have
dated from the "ship-of-the-line" era. Needless to say, they never saw action. The Sydney Harbour
Federation Trust is in the process of restoring a number of such historical locations.