Archaeology Notes

Event ID 768868

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX45SW 41.1 centred 4200 5310

A large accommodation camp for personnel serving at the adjacent Wigtown Airfield is situated between the A714 road and the W side of Baldoon Hill. The camp occupies an area of about 20.26 hectares.

Little sirvives of the camp apart from a few huts and hut bases along with traces of the tracks between the buildings.

The camp is visible on vertical air photographs (106G/Scot/UK 42, 4209-4210, flown 4 may 1946), which show that there were at least 140 buildings and huts with 25 air-raid shelters postioned around the perimeter of the area.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), April 2006