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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 833661
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/833661
NS47NW 68.00 centred 4206 7783
The remains of a WWII Starfish decoy (SF 13h) are visible at this location on RAF air photographs (58/A/419: 5199, 5200) taken on 19 June 1949 and All Scotland Survey air photographs (51588: 021, 022) taken on 10 June 1988. The control bunker is situated 400m to the S (see NS47NW 68.01). At least 8 bomb craters lie within 800m of the site.
Information from RCAHMS (KM) 3 December 2002.
The remains of the decoy site are visible on recent air photography taken in September 2007 (RCAHMS 2007) on the slope between the Auchenreoch Burn and the Garshake Burn.
The decoy site consists of least fourteen small concrete platforms situated immediately to the W of a track running NE-SW, which would have supported various types of oil burning trays and structures for pyrotechnic effects. The control bunker is about 540m to the S between Square Wood and the Garshake Burn (NS47NW 68.01). The site overlies an area of rig-and-furrow cultivation.
What may be the remains of the access track curving from the existing track round the S end of the site, are also visible on the photographs.
At least one, possibly two bomb craters survive (NTS47NW ) at NS 41997 78096 and NS 41934 78173 on moorland to the W.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), December 2007.
