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Field Visit
Date 25 August 2017
Event ID 1040468
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1040468
Three holdfasts, a service track and what may be an associated building, are all that has been observed of a temporary Cold War Anti-Aircraft Battery visible on a Fairey Surveys Ltd air photograph (FSL/7825 1103), flown on 26 August 1978 and noted in a document held by the National Archives at Kew (WO 106/5912).
The holdfasts, which are situated in rough pasture about 50m NW of an Electricity Switching Station, are linked by a grass-grown service track that connects to the World War II Starfish (NS46SW 196) to the N. A fourth holdfast, originally the most easterly, was excavated before the Switching Station was built (Kirby 2005); but the others, which are scarped back into the rising ground on the NE (NS 44705 60252, NS 44718 60228 and NS 44739 60210), measure 4m in diameter. Although the central holdfast is largely grass-grown, each can be seen to retain its metal fittings and a cable trench.
The building (NS 44856 60257), which may have been a store, is situated about 140m ENE, at right angles to the World War II Starfish service track (NS456SW 196). Only the grass-grown concrete floor survives and this measures 15m from N to S by 5m transversely. Its character and location are similar to the building situated about 90m SSW of the temporary Cold War anti-aircraft battery at Peathill Wood (NS57NE 112).
Visited by HES, Survey and Recording (ATW, AKK) 25 August 2017.
