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Note
Date 27 April 2020
Event ID 1096206
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1096206
A five sided type 24 concrete Pillbox has been record on the N side of Dundee Law. The pillbox is depicted on OS MasterMap and is visible on RAF air photograph 106G/Scot/UK/0003 6158 (flown 10 April 1946).
The pillbox is described has having bricked up loopholes and accessed via a flight of steps leading down the S facing rear wall to the doorway.
The pillbox has been coverted to a roost for bats, with the entrance and steps covered by a metal grate.
This pillbox forms part of the defences of Dundee during the Second World War but is not shown on contemporary plans of the defences (Barclay 2013).
Information from HES (AKK) and Grant Hutchison 27 April 2020: G J Barclay 2013
