Archaeology Notes

Event ID 854195

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ26NW 50.00 centred 2090 6948

Lossiemouth Airfield [NAT] (at NJ 208 694)

OS 1:10,560 map, 1970.

The airfield falls on six 1:10000 map sheets.

NJ26NW 50.01 NJ 2214 6920 Pillbox

NJ26NW 50.02 centred NJ 21665 69867 Aircraft Hangars; Buildings; Huts

NJ26NW 50.03 centred NJ 20276 69754 Aircraft Hangars; Buildings

NJ26NW 50.04 centred NJ 20453 68895 Aircraft Hangars; Buildings

NJ26NW 50.05 centred NJ 21693 68764 Bomb Store

NJ26NW 50.06 NJ 2013 6785 and NJ 2070 6765 Dispersal Bays

NJ26NW 50.07 NJ 21318 69867 Control Tower

NJ26NW 50.08 c.NJ 2182 6928 Pillbox (site of)

NJ26NW 50.09 c.NJ 2054 6911 Pillbox (site of)

NJ16NE 91 centred NJ 1980 6875 Dispersal Bays

NJ17SE 13.00 centred NJ 19902 70438 Aircraft Hangars; Buildings

NJ13SE 13.01 NJ 19873 70251 Pillbox

NJ26NW 55 NJ 22363 69571 Pillbox

NJ27SW 30.00 centred NJ 20637 70384 Aircraft Hangars; Buildings

NJ27SW 30.01 NJ 20402 70014 Pillbox

NJ27SW 30.02 centred NJ 21618 70272 Sewage Works

NJ27SW 30.03 c.NJ 2140 7044 Pillbox (site of)

NJ27SW 31 NJ 21600 70360 Pillbox

Extends onto OS 1:10000 and 1:10560 sheets NJ27SW, and NJ16NE.

For Old Parish Church of Drainie (NJ 1995 6921) and possible township at NJ 1984 6914, see NJ16NE 17 and NJ16NE 58 respectively.

For cropmarks within the area of the airfield, see NJ16NE 61, NJ16NE 62, and NJ26NW 79.

For (Smithfield) dovecot at NJ 2125 7021 (within the area of the airfield), see NJ27SW 27.

For the cropmarks of field boundaries and rig-and-furrow cultivation found around NJ 2129 7022, see NJ27SW 32.

Built as a permanent station at the same time as Kinloss (NJ06SE 29), opened in 1939, much of the accommodation being built rapidly. It is now the RN's largest station in Scotland.

D J Smith 1983.

The OS 1:10,560 map of 1970 depicts what are evidently dispersals and notes Airfield (disused) [NAT] at NJ 201 678 and NJ 206 676.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 December 1996.

Air photographs: AAS/97/12/G27/7-9, 13, 14 and AAS/97/12/CT.

NMRS, MS/712/29.

The airfield has been extensively recorded on two sorties of RAF WW II vertical air photographs (NLA 57, 5052-5059, flown 21 February 1943), at an approximate scale 1:2000 and FNO 189, 2.74-2.90, flown 13 October 1942, approximate scale of 1:10000), which shows most of the airfield.. The 1942 sortie shows the 'fields' camouflage scheme before the completion of the hard runways, whilst the 1943 sortie covers the technical area only. There also many postwar RAF and OS sorties of various dates covering this airfield, particularly 106G/UK 750, 6030-6035, 6041-6047, flown 31 August 1945. In addtion an annotated site plan from 1945 of the airfield, scale 1:2500 (Airfield plan no.30 RAF Museum, published by After the Battle Magazine) shows the disposition of aircraft hangars, buildings and huts at the end of the war.

The airfield has been subsequently reconstructed including the extension of the runways, removal of many of the wartime buildings except the hangars, many of which remain in use. The bomb store was orignially located on the northern perimeter, but at some time during WW II was rebuilt on the S side. This store has been reconstructed and adapted to suit modern warfare.

(Undated) information in NMRS.