Archaeology Notes

Event ID 818151

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS28SE 39.01 24890 80537 and 24919 80527

Previously recorded as NS28SW 26.00

Noted as Gun Site (dis) on OS 1:10000 scale map (1993).

Information from RCAHMS (DE), June 2002

These two 6-inch gun emplacements, which fall on map sheet are part of Portkil Battery. They are visible on postwar vertical air photographs (CPE/Scot/ 350, 5210-5211, flown 17 April 1948) as two circular emplacements with gun officers position between and to the rear, with a sunken magazine below. Other ancilliary buildings can be seen to the NW. What may be a further buildings (NS28SE 39.08) can be seen about 90m to the SE. All of these features are depicted on the current digital OS 1:2500 scale maps.

A rifle range (NS28SE 39.14) is also visible running due S from the gun emplacements.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), March 2003