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World War One Audit of Surviving Remains

Date 5 July 2013

Event ID 962241

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type World War One Audit of Surviving Remains

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/962241

Previously identified as a searchlight platform. It is a First World War pillbox.

It is one of the pillboxes (called "blockhouses") marked on 1916 maps of the defences of Portkil battery (The National Archives WO 78/4396). It survives in good condition at the eastern edge of battery compound, overlooking a jetty and the foreshore.

Information from HS/RCAHMS World War One Audit Project (GJB) 5 July 2013.

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