From the air
Battery Observation Post III
A named ruin in the open map’s record, lying in Sumner.
Where it lies
The site’s extent as OpenStreetMap outlines it, a mapper’s draw, not a surveyed boundary. The strong outline is the suburb.
On the register nearby
Listed places within about 300m, the register may hold this very site under its listed name, or a neighbour of it.
The ground under it
The plans and surveys kept here, asked once of the pin. The whole stack answers live: what stood on this ground →
Around it
The reports nearby
4 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Trees & parks, 4 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge
Overgrown VegetationQuestions, answered briefly
A named ruin in the open map’s record of Christchurch, lying in Sumner.
The map’s own tags are all this page claims, a named place where something stood or lies buried. The heritage register nearby (linked where the record keeps one) and the library’s photograph collections carry the fuller story.
1 listed place within 300m, each opens its own record from this page.
The map doesn’t say, an archaeological site may be private land, delicate ground or both. Treat the pin as where the record puts it, not an invitation.
The record behind this
The position and the tags are OpenStreetMap’s, a named node or way tagged historic=ruins or historic=archaeological_site inside the city boundary (ODbL). A name is the mapper’s, a lead, not a register listing. An old site may be private land or delicate ground; the pin is not an invitation.
This page as markdown: /site/battery-observation-post-iii.md · the sites as data: /peaks.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=peaks · the register proper: /history · the high places: /summit · every roll, counted: /geography.