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Oblique aerial view of much of Culbin Forest and shoreline, with the seaward tip of Findhorn in the foreground, Moray, looking SW.
DP 343432
Description Oblique aerial view of much of Culbin Forest and shoreline, with the seaward tip of Findhorn in the foreground, Moray, looking SW.
Date 7/8/2014
Collection Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland
Catalogue Number DP 343432
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content The coastal lagoon (centre right) has WW2 anti-glider posts from c.1940 (not visible from this distance). The rightmost spit contains the remains of minesweeping equipment known as an "Oropesa float". The forested area (Culbin Forest) immediately W of Findhorn Bay has a number of shell middens, while much of the forest (which was planted to stabilise the Culbin Sands) features settlement and farming archaeology dating from the Bronze Age onwards to post-medieval, including a settlement abandoned at the end of the 16th-C. There are also sites associated with preparations for the WW2 D-day landings. The parallel straight structures on Findhorn's seaward shore are groynes, constructed to resist beach erosion due to longshore drift. Title and Scope & Content contributed by North of Scotland Archaeological Society (2021).
Accession Number 2020/58
External Reference D3317
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/2108719
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