Archaeology Notes

Event ID 696788

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT08NW 134 c. 0077 8554

The control bunker for a Naval Starfish and small fire decoy site is visible on vertical air photographs (106G/UK 983, 3032-3033, flown 8 November 1945), situated on coal waste tips (bings) about 300m NE of Preston Island. The bunker is rectangular in plan with the entrance on the E side. There is no evidence on the air photographs of the decoy siteand as the images were taken at high tide, it is not certain whether the decoy was on the tidal flats between Preston Island and the waste tip or on the tip itself.

The decoy covered Rosyth and was designated code RO5 by the War Office.

The bunker has subsequently been covered by further coal waste and ash tipping in the area or demolished.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), January 2006.