Archaeology Notes

Event ID 758734

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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A small grass airfield used for advance training for the Normandy Landings. The autumn of 1943 saw the reconstruction of the main runway at Dundonald. On September 2 1944 the station was placed on a care and maintainance basis. On 1 August 1945 the airfield officially closed although the site was retained by the Army. It is now farmland, though the runways can still be traced in the fields.

D J Smith 1983; B Quarrie 1987

The airfield is visible on vertical air photograph, (OS 78/109/001, flown 1978).

Information from RCAHMS (DE) August 1996.