Archaeology Notes

Event ID 680032

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT67NE 158 650 789 to 652 787

Site recorded during a rapid coastal survey undertaken by GUARD of the S shore of the Firth of Forth from Dunbar to Stirling and along the N shore of the Forth to the Fife border. A gazetteer of all sites including listed buildings, designed landscapes, scheduled and unscheduled monuments was produced. Full details of the survey can be consulted in the report held by the NMRS.

Sponsor: Historic Scotland

GUARD 1996

Slit trench system seen on 1946 aerial photographs but not visible on 1988 aerial photographs. B174 4060-61

Site recorded by GUARD during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, 'The Firth of Forth from Dunbar to the Coast of Fife' 1996.

The trench system is visible on vertical air photographs (RAF 106G/UK 1319, 5065-6, flown 28 March 1946) as two distinct lines set on the coastal side of a double line of anti-tank blocks which run E as far as the Bell Water. The anti-tank blocks continued W round Belhaven Bay. The anti-tank blocks have since been removed.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), October 2002