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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 789988

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/789988

NO76SW 74.00 7419 6407

NO76SW 74.01 NO c.7401 6399 and NO c.7420 6402 Pillboxes

A Chain Home Low radar station is situated some 300m ENE of Scotston of Kirkside farm. The transmitter/receiver block is located at NO 7419 6407 and is depicted on the current edition of the chart copy OS 1:10000 map (1976).

Information from Mr I Brown, November 1998

The radar station is visible on a oblique wartime air photograph (772.H61, 4.10, flown 1942). The radar station is situated in cultivated fields to the ENE of Scotston of Kirkside farm. A series of wooden buildings, Nissen huts, with at least one earth covered bunker possibly for the electricity generator and two pillboxes are visible within a perimeter fence.

Information from RCAHMS (DE) March 2000

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