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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 755610

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/755610

NO53NE 59.06 Centred 5880 3895

The hut bases of a small hutted camp is visible on vertical air photographs (CPE/Scot/UK 218, 4202-4204, 25 June 1947), in an area about 667m E of East Balmirmer farmsteading, N of the airfield. The camp almost certainly provided additional accommodation for the Airfield.

The camp is situated within a triangular piece of land N of a minor road leading to Mains of Kelly and would ahve consisted of at least 35 huts.

No evidence for the hutted camp can be seen on recent air photography (All Scotland Survey [Jasair], 51788 207-208, flown 18, 24 June 1988.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), October 2005

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