Archaeology Notes

Event ID 827939

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR85NE 70 89747 57315

A brick and concrete observation tower is situated immediately to the W of the B8001 road about 250m S of Araneigh farmsteading. It measures approximately 25 ft square and is about 40 ft high. The building faces S and there are windows on each of the W,S and E elevations with the entrance and steps on the N side.

Information via the Defence of Britain Project from L & P Draper, Culbokie, March 2002 and J Cameron 1998

Sites identified as part of a coastal zone assessment survey.

NR 8974 5731 - Observation post.

NR 8975 5737 - Quarry.

NR 8975 5731 - Mile post.

M Cressey, S Badger, 2005.