Archaeology Notes

Event ID 655135

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/655135

ND35NW 20 3420 5960.

A modern pill-box, very badly damaged, 3.65m in maximum width and 1.85m in maximum height. Three tiers of concrete remain on the edge of the dunes.

C E Batey 1984.

Though this has been described as a demolished pillbox, reference to OS vertical air photographs (OS/67 102, flown 1967), would suggest that, as all other pillboxes protecting Sinclair's Bay are of hexagonal type 24, this is of a very different appearance.. The aerial photographs would suggest that this structure is almost square and that there is no evidence of any walling or brickwork in the collapsed material.

It is not known what this building was for.

Information from Defence of Britain Project form, (Mr A Gutteridge), 2001