Archaeology Notes
Event ID 828724
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/828724
NS57NE 84 595 762
The remains of a Starfish decoy site (SF13c) are visible at this location on RAF air photographs taken in 1945 (106G/UK989: 4248 and 4249). The site is not visible on All Scotland Survey air photographs taken in 1988 (51588: 077, 078). The control bunker (NS67NW 70) is situated 1km to the E.
Information from RCAHMS (KM), 27 December 2002.
This extensive civil Starfish decoy site is situated on the S-facing slopes of Blairskaith Muir.
The site consists of a series shallow ditched rectangular and oval shaped enclosures forming firebreaks, which would have contained basket, boiling oil, grid/coal drip and plain coal fires. The group of enclosures are also visible on further frames of the above mentioned sortie (106G/UK 989 31283129, flown 9 November 1945), which show that the site extended over an area 300m square. It is not known whether the bunker recorded about 600m W (NS57NE 54) was linked to this group or to the small fire or lighting decoys (Civil QF/QL), located in this area.
It is not known whether anything survives of this site.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), November 2005.