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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.
