Archaeology Notes

Event ID 783061

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT58NE 59 centred 59306 85257

See also NT58NE 58.

Site recorded during a rapid coastal survey undertaken by GUARD of the S shore of the Firth of Forth from Dunbar to Stirling and along the N shore of the Forth to the Fife border. A gazetteer of all sites including listed buildings, designed landscapes, scheduled and unscheduled monuments was produced. Full details of the survey can be consulted in the report held by the NMRS.

NT 592 852 Research laboratory.

Sponsor: Historic Scotland

GUARD 1996

Flat roofed buildings and concrete roadways, seen on 1946 aerial photographs. Appearance of buildings suggest they are of recent or wartime construction. Site still in use on 1974 and 1988 aerial photographs, but some structures have been demolished and replaced. B108 7287-8 15/4/46.

Site recorded by GUARD during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, 'The Firth of Forth from Dunbar to the Coast of Fife' 1996.

This research establishment was opened in 1943 to develop radar for the Royal Navy. The base was also used to test the effectiveness of radio countermeasures equipment prior to the D-day landings in June 1944.

The site was sold to Ferranti's Ltd in 1948 and now lies derelict.

Information from RCAHMS (DE) and Mr I Brown, July 2004.

The group comprising the former Royal Navy Research Establishment are visible on oblique aerial photographs taken in September 2007 (RCAHMS 2007), which show large flat roofed buildings at a lower level (NT 59316 85310) with a further group centred at NT 59293 85262 at the upper level.

One structure is noted on Taking Head at NT 59058 85310.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), December 2007.