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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 790979
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/790979
NO42SE 57 c. 4986 2302
For other military command, training and defensive structures on Tentsmuir Sands, see also:
NO42NE 71-3, 117 and 127
NO42SE 56 and NO42SE 77 -9 and 81
NO 4968 2304 A concrete lookout position is situated in sand-dunes, S of the Tentsmuir Forest. The WW2 wood and concrete command post covered the section behind. Wood supports have now collapsed.
J Guy 1994; NMRS MS 810/3, 136-7.
Rectangular concrete pillbox situated on top of old dune behind beach line. Slit openings to E, N, and NW. Entered by door from back of dune.
Site recorded by Maritime Fife during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, Fife Ness to Newburgh 1996.