Mollandhu, Geilston Burn
Anti Aircraft Battery (20th Century)
Site Name Mollandhu, Geilston Burn
Classification Anti Aircraft Battery (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) An1; Clyde Aa Defences; Cardross Crematorium And Cemetery
Canmore ID 106354
Site Number NS37NW 20
NGR NS 3357 7880
NGR Description Centred NS 3357 7880
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/106354
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Cardross (Argyll And Bute)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Dumbarton
- Former County Dunbartonshire
NS37NW 20 Centred 3357 7880
What may be an anti-aircraft battery is depicted on the latest edition of the OS map. (OS 1:10000 map, 1991) some 200m E of Cardross Crematorium. Four gun emplacements are shown.
Information from RCAHMS (DE) August 1996
The location of this four gun heavy anti-aircraft battery and military camp are confirmed from aerial photographs. The accommodation camp was to the N on the other side of a hedge.
Information from RCAHMS (DE) July 1997
This World War II heavy anti-aircraft battery is situated at the end of a track which leads NNE from Mollandhu farmsteading. Four brick gun-emplacements, now heavily overgrown, are still extant. No other structures including the command post could be seen on the date of visit.
The gun-emplacements with ammunition lockers are smaller than the normal design. In addition, part of the emplacements have been built lower on the slope to provide a better field of fire.
J Guy 2001; NMRS MS 810/11, Part 2, 151-2, Vol.2 (appendix), 14
The heavy anti-aircraft battery is visible on a RAF WW II oblique aerial photograph (F 309, 2654, flown 6 June 1941), which shows the four gun-emaplacement, magazine, command post and the accommodation camp to the N.
Also visible on the photograph are at least ten bomb craters in the surrounding area.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), November 2005