Archaeology Notes

Event ID 769581

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT27SW 114 203 748

Sector control for 1950s 'rotor' air defence scheme.

N H Clark 1986

Situated on the N part of Corstorphine Hill, immediately S of a quarry, is the World War Two Sector Operation's Headquarters buildings. All that is now visible is the later three storey underground bunker.

During World War Two, the Sector HQ moved from Turnhouse Airfield (NT17SE 70.00) to a group of surface buildings on Corstorphine Hill. In the 1950s the three storey underground Sector Operations Centre was excavated. The building was later designated for use as a Regional Seat of Government in the event of nuclear attack.

J A Guy 1997; NMRS MS 810/5, 101-4

This bunker was sold to a private developer in 1987 and gutted by fire in 1992.

Information from RCAHMS (KM) 16 February 2000.

This ROTOR station designated R4 SOC has over fifty rooms underground on three levels. ROTOR was a replacement for the World War II Chaih Home and Ground Control Interception systems. The R4 series were Sector Operations Centres. The surface buildings are now in porr condition heavily daubed with grafitti.