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Field Visit
Date October 2022
Event ID 1192796
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1192796
NK 00880 24450 A World War II pill box stands at entrance to bay. It is partly covered with sand and tilting over at an angle. A disjointed line of anti-tank blocks run along the edge of the beach northwards, some barely showing through the sand. The 4-inch naval guns of 942nd Defence Battery (Mobile), RA were also apparently positioned on the north bank of Newburgh Bar. A review of vulnerable beaches from April-Oct 1941 included Forvie, identified as being 'blocked with mines'. Mine clearance took place in 1944. Forvie Sands was also used to train the Gordon Highlanders and Highland Light Infantry in desert warfare, the soldiers training at Forvie being billeted at the Slains Lodge and buildings in Collieston.
Pill box mostly buried C. 100m seaward is a short line of tank cubes, oriented north south, across one of the channels of the Ythan. Lying on their sides and some fragmenting. In the same general area slightly seaward and east of the tank cubes are 3 short lines of posts. These look like anti glider posts. Seen and photographed from the Newburgh side.
Information from S. Boyd and J. Hambly - Scottish Coastal Archaeology and the Problem of Erosion (SCAPE)
