Archaeology Notes

Event ID 771741

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ27SW 30.01 20402 70014

See also sites for Lossiemouth Airfield on map sheets NJ16NE, NJ17NE, and NJ26NW.

(Name cited as Lossiemouth Airfield and location as NJ 2040 7001). A pillbox of World War II date stands within Lossiemouth airfield (NJ26NW 50) on the NW side.

GRC/AAS photographs: GR/99/CT53/WW, dated 2 September 1999.

NMRS, MS/712/91.

A brick and concrete type 27 pillbox situated within the airfield and beside an internal road. The pillbox is substantially complete and incorporates a central gunpit with a short blast wall on the W side.

Information by letter to RCAHMS from W A Bartlam 2003