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Longannet
Armament Depot (20th Century)
Site Name Longannet
Classification Armament Depot (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Longannet Point
Canmore ID 105905
Site Number NS98NW 193
NGR NS 940 861
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/105905
- Council Fife
- Parish Tulliallan
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Dunfermline
- Former County Fife
NS98NW 193 940 861
An armament depot with 17 bunkers is visible on a Luftwaffe aerial photograph taken in 1939. In 1991, only the westernmost five bunkers remain depicted on the OS 1:10,000 map, the rest of the site having been covered by Longannet Power Station.
Information from RCAHMS (KM) 12 August 1996.
The armament depot is visible on large scale vertical air photographs (106G/Scot/UK 25, 6044-6047, flown 18 April 1946), which show that there were twenty-six large and a further seven smaller bunkers for storing ammunition.
The site area originally occupied approximately 37.80 hectares with a small accommodation and administration camp on the N side between Longannet Cottages and a point about 170m to the SW. Within this group of buildings were at least fourteen huts.
Much of the site was cleared for the construction of the coal storage area of Longannet Power Station (NS98NE 40), but five of the bunkers survived this clearance and are depicted on the current OS 1:2500 digital map (at NS 93891 86218, NS 93979 86190, NS 94067 86161, 93908 86123 and NS 93999 86095. Recent development proposals are likely to lead to their demolition.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), February 2007
