Archaeology Notes

Event ID 738466

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO12NE 61.00 centred 1548 2815

Extends onto map sheet NO12NW. For other defences and the bomb store see also NO12NE 65 and NO12NE 66 NO12NW 93

NO12NE 61.01 NO 1510 2855 Buildings

NO12NE 61.02 NO 1484 2793 Building (lies on sheet NO12NW)

NO12NE 61.03 c.NO 1521 2880 Pillbox

NO12NE 61.04 c.NO 1570 2785 Pillbox

NO12NE 61.05 c.NO1594 2776 Pillbox

NO12NE 61.06 NO 15561 27916 and NO 15447 27900 Aircraft hangars

NO12NE 61.07 NO 15354 27931 Control tower

NO12NE 61.08 NO 1538 2779 Huts

NO12NE 61.09 c.NO 1546 2764 Pillbox

The aerodrome known locally as Scone has been associated with pilot training for almost 50 years, two asphalt runways were laid in 1969.

D J Smith 1983

Two sets of structures survive along the present Western boundary of the aerodrome, along the line of a footpath through Muirward Wood.

M A Hall (Perth Museum & Art Gallery) 1995

Perth airstrip or airfield is situated to the NE of Perth and E of New Scone. Many buildings of the wartime period survive.

J Guy 2000; NMRS MS 810/9

The whole airfield is visible on RAF WW II vertical air photographs (NLA 68, 3071-3076, 4071-4076, flown 27 August 1943).

All of the extant buildings in the technical area at the time of the photograph are visible, the aircraft hangars and the control tower (NO12NE 61.06 and NO12NE 61.07 respectively). Most of the airfield defences can also be seen including at least four pillboxes. Several blister hangars are visible around the W and N perimeters of the airfield.

The airfield is also visible on vertcial air photographs taken in 1973 (OS 75 380, 015-018, flown 15 September 1973), which shows by that date the hard runways had been completed.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), September 2005