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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 835541
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/835541
NX65SE 355.00 centred 67172 50488
NX65SE 355.01 NX 67172 50488 Boathouse
NX65SE 355.02 NX 67244 50476 Slipway
Gib Hill saw mill has utilised parts of the former World War II Air Sea Rescue base. No.55 Air Sea Rescue Unit were based here and the slipway, boathouse, and other buildings are still extant.
The group of buildings are visible on RAF postwar vertical air photographs (106G/UK 421, 3033-34, flown 19 June 1945) and show a layout similar to that depicted on the current OS digital maps.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), November 2003
The main building in use by the sawmill is the former boathouse. On the roof at the N end of the building is a small observation tower which was to control the movement of launches in the Dee Estuary. The shed has asbestos cladding on the walls and a concrete tiled roof. There are some surviving ancillary buildings on the N side of the boat shed. All other structures have been built for the sawmill.
Visited by RCAHMS (DE), March 2004.
