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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 845642
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/845642
NT74NE 7.01 74617 46253 to 74993 46457 and 7534 4611
Part falls on map sheet NT74NW.
The decontamination centre exists on the old Officers' Mess site.
B Quarrie 1987.
This airfield is still being used for motor racing, however at NT 7531 4610 in a small wood, the foundations for several buildings survive with an upstanding section of concrete. In woods to the S of the B6460 public road (NT 7462 4627 to NT 7498 4645) are the footings of a series of buildings with, and a large concrete building (on sheet NT74NW; NT74NE 7.01, NT 7463 4623) which is still virtually complete, however, much of the roofing has collapsed. On the N wall of this building are the words 'Gas Decontamination Building' can still be discerned and in two rooms on the W side, some machinery survives. Further brick built buildings noted from the public road, survive on the E side of the airfield (NT c. 7695 4665).
A large grain silo has been built within the airfield central complex.
Visited by RCAHMS (DE) 18 March 1996
In woods to the S of the B6460 public road (NT 7462 4627 to NT 7498 4645) are the footings of a series of buildings with, including a large concrete building (on sheet NT74NW; NT74NE 7.01, NT 7463 4623) which is still virtually complete, but with much of the roofing collapsed. On the N wall of this building are the words 'Gas Decontamination Building' can still be discerned and in two rooms on the W side, some machinery survives. Further brick built buildings noted from the public road, survive on the E side of the airfield (NT c. 7695 4665).
