Archaeology Notes

Event ID 793410

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS79SE 212 centred 7809 9396

For Falleninch Farmstead See also NS79SE 241

In area now enclosed by the M9, A84 and A811 roads is the site of a First World War airfield. No remains of the airfield could be found on the date of visit.

J Guy 1999; D J Smith; NMRS MS 810/7, 17-18

First World War aerodrome situated in the fields around Falleninch Farmsteading (NS79SE 241).

Opened in 1916 and used for training pilots, the farmhouse at Falleninch being requisitioned for miltary use. The aerodrome occupied about 43 hectares and was bounded by the Raploch Burn (now a boundary fence), to the S and the Forth to Clyde Railway (now abandoned, the trackbed surviving), on the N. To assist with flying operations the telegraph poles along the railway were cut shorter.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), August 2007; M Fife 2007.