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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 859959
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/859959
NJ26NE 14.00 2560 6815 to 2999 6715
For information on Emergency Coast Battery (transferred to site number NJ26NE 30.00) and for W section of coast defences, see NJ36NW 5.00.
NJ26NE 14.01 NJ 29697 67175 Pillbox; Anti-Tank Blocks
NJ26NE 14.02 NJ 29372 67371 Pillbox
NJ26NE 14.03 NJ 29029 67521 Pillbox
NJ26NE 14.04 NJ 28722 67709 Pillbox
NJ26NE 14.05 NJ 28407 67805 Pillbox
NJ26NE 14.06 NJ 28059 67982 Pillbox
NJ26NE 14.07 NJ 27725 68117 Pillbox; Anti-Tank Blocks
NJ26NE 14.08 NJ 27425 68262 Pillbox
NJ26NE 14.09 NJ 26644 68373 Pillbox
NJ26NE 14.10 NJ 26337 68494 Pillbox
NJ26NE 14.11 NJ 26203 68601 Pillbox; Anti-Tank Blocks
NJ26NE 14.12 NJ 25897 68439 Pillbox
NJ26NE 14.13 NJ 25579 68144 Pillbox; Anti-Tank Blocks
NJ26NE 14.14 NJ 28239 67848 Pillbox (possible)
NJ26NE 14.15 NJ 26695 68412 Pillbox
NJ26NE 14.16 NJ 26202 68578 Pillbox
NJ26NE 14.17 NJ c. 2576 6836 Pillbox (possible)
There are a 'coast battery' (GRC NJ26NE 15) and a pillbox (GRC NJ26NE 17) at NJ 2815 6785 and NJ 2841 6781, respectively.
NMRS MS/712/9.
GRC NJ26NE 15 2815 6785. Coastal battery comprising 2 x 6 in. gun emplacements, 3 x engine rooms and 2 x searchlight emplacements set facing N across foreshore (NJ24NE 30.00). The battery formed at Lossiemouth on 28 May 1941; it had been reduced to care and maintenance by April 1945 and removed by June 1945.
Defence line of anti-tank blocks and pillboxes protecting the dunes.
Visited by J Guy
This battery and defence line is visible on Royal Air Force vertical aerial photographs taken in 1945 (106G/UK 750: 5008, 5009) and oblique aerial photographs taken in 1950 (541/A/487: 0077-0078).
Information from RCAHMS (KM) 13 March 2001.
This section forms the east sector (Kingston to Lossiemouth) part of the anti-invasion beach defences of Moray which ran from Cullen Bay to Burghead Bay. The defences include pillboxes, infantry observation posts, artillery observation posts, Home Guard observation posts, Home Guard Defended localities, keeps, wire obstacles, aircraft immobilisation poles, tubular scaffolding and two sections of airfield perimeter defences which included the light and heavy anti-aircaft batteries possibly providing a secondary beach defence role. (Lossiemouth and Kinloss).
Information from RCAHMS (DE), September 2003
A visit to the anti-invasion defences in February 2008 noted that the line of blocks remained almost complete along with the assocated pillboxes, blockhouses and emergency coast battery (NJ26NE 30.00). Nearly all of the line of blocks have been constructed using the shuttered concrete technique and most retain the metal lifting loops. The pillboxes are nearly all type 24 with alternate small rectangular' blockhouses' the whole length of the beach. Only one pillbox would appear to have suffered from under-cutting by the sea, that at NJ 28406 67905 (NJ26NE 14.05), the structure now leans to one side. The erosion has ocurred since 1992 when Mr J Guy visited the site.
In addition, several of the anti-landing trenches or ditches were noted running across the links behind the beach. They survive as a series of elongated pits many filled with water or beach pebbles running at right angles to the line of anti-tanks blocks.
These ditches and trenches are visible on RAF WW II vertical air photographs (241cE1-E2and B1 to B10, flown 13 March 1941).
Visited by RCAHMS (DE, NG), 27 February 2008
