Archaeology Notes

Event ID 819255

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS46NW 62 4132 6906

Situated on the top of Barochan Hill and lying to the west side of a wood are the remains of a World War II installation. The installation has four elements of which the major part is a rectangular brick built building with two compartments measuring 19.5m by 6.4m. Three circular or elliptical banked structures lie to the N and NW measuring between 7m and 9m across all badly damaged by cattle.

The building or hut is probably the accommodation for crew manning the installation whilst the other three structures are possible emplacements of some sort, most likely for searchlights, though local sources have suggested that light AA Bofors guns may have been been installed here. The site probably forms part of the defences for the Bishopton, Royal Ordnance Factory.

Information from Defence of Britain Project recording form, Mr J Macdonald, 1994