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Ury House
Anti Tank Blocks (20th Century), Pillbox (20th Century)
Site Name Ury House
Classification Anti Tank Blocks (20th Century), Pillbox (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Cowie Stop Line; Cowie Water
Canmore ID 114862
Site Number NO88NE 87
NGR NO 85454 87816
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/114862
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Fetteresso
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Kincardineshire
NO88NE 87.00 centred 8547 8781 and 8552 8779
NO88NE 87.01 from c.NO 8529 8790 to c.NO 8550 8789 Earthwork; Bank
NO88NE 87.02 c.NO 8552 8778 Road Block
For other elements of the Cowie Stop (or Cowie Defence) line, see NO78NE 10, NO88NE 88, NO88NE 311, NO88NE 312 and NO88NW 35 and NO88NW 36.
This monument comprises the remains of a Type-22 pill box and other wartime defensive structures covering the southern end of the viaduct (NO88NE 89) crossing the gorge of the Cowie Water, south of Ury Home Farm, and the older bridge below it.
The pillbox box is 6-sided, made of a mixture of granite, concrete and brick. There is a stanchion to attach a barbed wire entanglement. There are 5 concrete tank blocks: 2 at the S end of the viaduct and 3 blocking the S end of the older bridge below. There are traces of earthworks on the slope between the pill box and the Cowie Water. There are faint traces of further structures to the west of the pill box.
The area around NO 8547 8781 contains the pill box and other structures, and that around NO 8552 8779 contains the tank blocks and the earthworks.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 28 August 1996.
(Location cited as NO 855 878). A type 22 pillbox, anti-tank blocks and other wartime defensive structures cover the southern end of the viaduct (NO88NE 89) crossing the gorge of the Cowie Water.
Information from Aberdeenshire Archaeological Service, December 1996.
NMRS, MS/712/13.
