Archaeology Notes

Event ID 757873

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM04SW 21.00 centred 00593 44853

The runways are mainly on map sheet with the northenr part on whilst the Technical area is recorded under NL94SE 54.00 and NM04NW 52.00.

NM04SW 21.01 NM 00000 44672 Control tower (old)

NM04SW 21.02 NM 00095 44036 Aircraft Hangar

NM04SW 21.03 Centred NM 00502 44427 Aircraft Hangars; buildings; huts (S dispersal )

NM04SW 21.04 Centred NM 00372 43995 and NM 00794 43995 Military Camps

Tiree Airport [NAT] (at NM 0029 4482)

OS (GIS) AIB, April 2008.

The site was first occupied and made operational in late 1941. The airfield is still in use for services to Glasgow and Barra. Many concrete bases for the hangars can be seen around this airfield.

D J Smith 1983; B Quarrie 1987

Noted in Guy 2001, Strathclyde, A Survey of 20th Century Defences.

J Guy 2001; NMRS MS 810/11, Part 1, 5-9