Archaeology Notes

Event ID 870023

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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Nothing is visible in disturbed ground situated on the N bank of the River Forth SE of Alloa within an area now occupied by a sewage works and refuse destructor of a First World War aircraft factory and airfield .

The factory opened in 1916 to produce aircraft of several types. The factory employed mainly women during the First War and constructed no more aeroplanes after 1919, with the Company going out of business in 1924.

The airfield was in a field immediately to the E of the factory (Information via e-mail from Ms Susan Mills to Lorna Main of Striling Council, 12 April 2010).

The factory is depicted on the Revision edition of the OS 25-inch map (Stirlingshire, c.1922) which shows a large building of two compartments with two smaller roofed buildings to the N. It is annotated the 'Caudron Aeroplane Factory'. The area occupied by the factory lies to the W of the refuse destructor depicted on the currant OS digital maps.

Information from RCAHMS (DE); Ms S Mills via e-mail to L Main, Sitrling Council Environmental Services.