Archaeology Notes

Event ID 667605

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO31NE 66 Centred NO 3780 1574

For (later) listening station at Kingask, see NO31NE 85.00

Identified from vertical air photographs. The radio station is also visible on postwar oblqiue aerial views (540[A] 388, SFFO: 0406, 0407, flown 23 May 1948), which show over twenty masts at Hawklaw, the top of the rise to the NE of Cupar. Also visible are two single storey buildings and a small hut.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), July 2006

The flat roofed building is situated on the N side of the minor road leading to Foxton Farmsteading (NO31NE 73). The building is surrounded by a security fence. A recent visit noted that the building is not in use and up for sale.

It is visible on large scale vertical air photographs (106G/Scot/UK 67, Pt II, 5184-5187, 8 May 1946), which clearly show the array of masts in the fields to the N and NW.

The listening station is noted as being used for monitoring Naval coded traffic for Station X at Bletchley Park, England.

Visited by RCAHMS (DE), July 2006.