Archaeology Notes
Event ID 810084
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/810084
NS75SW 26 70551 51046
In a field to the S of the post-war anti-aircraft battery (NS75SW 25). A four gun 3.7/4.5-inch AA battery with the command post and gun laying platform nearby, constructed of brick and in quite good condition.
Information from Mr J Guy, August 1996
The following site in South Lanarkshire has been identified and recorded during fieldwork carried out by the staff of West of Scotland Archaeology Service. Full details are available in the WoSAS SMR.
NS 7055 5103 Limekilnburn Anti-aircraft battery.
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West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1997
This site has been recorded by Mr J Guy as part of the Strathclyde Survey.
J Guy 2001; NMRS MS 810/11, Part 3, 246-7; Vol.2 (appendix), 25
The four gun-emplacement battery set amid an area of rig-and-furrow cultivation is visible on oblique digital air photographs (RCAHMS 2007), which show the gun positions, command post and the radar ramp for a gun laying radar set.
National Record Office (former Public Record Office) archive shows that this gun battery remained unarmed from June 1942 to December 1945, no records are noted for the manning. In addition there are no records of the type of radar supplied.
