Archaeology Notes

Event ID 756726

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/756726

NT16NW 52.00 Centred 1249 6575

NT16NW 52.01 NT 114 650 Military Camp

NT16NW 52.02 NT 11757 65848 Aircraft Hangar

NT16NW 52.03 NT 11818 65791 Building

NT16NW 52.04 NT 11837 65842 and NT 11821 65874 Buildings

This airfield opened during late 1941, but by 1944 it is recorded as having no hangars. In more recent times three hangars were noted. The First Battalion, Gordon Highlanders now occupies one of the dispersal areas to the W.

The USAF used the airfield during the 1950s for storage, but it was returned to Britain during the later 1960s. In more recent years it has been used for a gliding school.

D J Smith 1983

Many buildings adjacent to the public road have now been removed.

J A Guy 1997; NMRS MS 810/5, 30-3.

Visible on Ordnance Survey aerial photograph 65/50/114.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM) 6 January 1998

The airfield is visible on RAF WW II vertical air photographs (NLA 71, 3010-3025, 4010-4025, flown 9 September 1943), and shows one aircraft hangar, probably a Bellman type, in the same location as the present day. Several blister hangars are also visible around the airfield perimeter along with dispersal bays and other small buildings.

The military camp is also visible on the air photographs (NLA 71, 4010-4012, flown 9 September 1943).

No defensive pillboxes can be seen on the photographs, but the runways have been camouflaged.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), March 2005