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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 848187
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/848187
NO02SW 31.00 centred 0066 2160
NO02SW 31.01 centred NO 0180 2053, NO 0155 2025 and NO 0190 2094 Military Camp
NO02SW 31.02 NO 0115 2136 Hangar
NO02SW 31.03 NO 0113 2140 Control Tower
NO02SW 31.04 NO 0055 2099 to NN 9991 2091 Dispersal Bays
For related building at NO 0211 2043, see NO02SW 6.
For possibly-associated pumping station (NO 0265 1987), see NO01NW 132.
This airfield has retained a large three-storey late war control tower. One hangar also survives.
D J Smith 1983.
The World War II airfield at Findo Gask is visible on contemporary RAF vertcial air photographs (NLA 71, 3055-3063, 4057-4065, flown 9 September 1943), which shows almost all of the military area.
Visible on the photographs are the runways, hangars, both T2 and blister type, technical area, dispersal areas and the accommodation camp situated to the S in Mayfield Wood.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), September 2005
A copy of the Findo Gask Airfield and dispersed sites Record Site Plan drawn at a scale of 1:2500 (Drwg No. 3375/46), dated July 1946 is included with the J Guy Report (MS 810/9). The numbered plan numbers all buildings and a schedule of these is included at the margin.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), January 2008
