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Note
Date 12 August 2013
Event ID 963187
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/963187
Previously recorded in error as a searchlight battery.
The site comprises three earthwork features previously identified on aerial imagery on the ridge of Wormit Hill. Each earthwork is roughly circular c. 14m in diameter with a short 'tail' or trench extending c. 6m to the NW arc. These would appear to be defensive positions.
The earthworks appear to match the large-scale map dated 1916 on a War Department file (The National Archives WO 78/4417) which shows five defended posts and one defended cottage to the south of the Tay Railway Bridge. The other positions are at
A building marked on the map as a defended cottage may be the building at NO 39534 25872.
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 12 August 2013.
