Archaeology Notes

Event ID 649365

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/649365

NK04NE 12.07 centred 0822 4690

The technical area for Peterhead Airfield is situated at the SE perimeter of the runways and N of the A950 road. The control tower, aircraft hangars (Blister and a possible type 'T'), repair sheds, huts, Nissen huts and emergency air-raid shelters are all visible on RAF vertical air photographs (106G/Scot/UK109, 3013-3014, flown 23 May 1946).

Apart from two remaining roofed buildings, most of those seen on the photographs have now been either demolished or survive in an unroofed condition along with the emergency air-raid shelters and the concrete bases for huts. The control tower had been demolished by 1969, as it is visible as a pile of rubble on vertical air photographs of that date (OS 69 176, 060, flown 6 June 1969).

Information from RCAHMS (DE), November 2004