Archaeology Notes

Event ID 769327

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT27NW 51 Centred 2060 7690

For Starfish decoy site see also NT17NE 212

The site of heavy anti-aircraft battery was situated in an area on the N side of Silverknowes Golf Course, some 200m W of the Present Commodore Hotel. It is not known what calibre of gun was mounted at this battery. The accommodation huts, mainly Nissen type were to the E of the gun-emplacements.

Information from RCAHMS (DE) August 1997

This gun site was a decoy anti-aircraft battery with dummy guns using wooden poles for the gun barrels set in turf walled emplacements.

Information from Mr Brown, Davidsons Mains, Edinburgh, March 1999

Visible on RAF WW II vertical air photographs (NLA 14, 619-621, 19 June 1941), on the N part of Silverknowes Golf Course.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), March 2005