Port Erroll Harbour
Anti Tank Blocks (Second World War)
Site Name Port Erroll Harbour
Classification Anti Tank Blocks (Second World War)
Alternative Name(s) Port Errol; Cruden Bay Defences
Canmore ID 106988
Site Number NK03NE 68
NGR NK 09491 35652
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/106988
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Cruden
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Note (18 August 2014)
At the top of the slipway in the outer of the two parts of Port Errol harbour, there are two concrete walls, built one behind the other and slightly offset in such a way as to block vehicular traffic up or down the slipway but to permit access on foot down steps between them. Both walls have a large sub-circular concrete mass at the outer end, perhaps to prevent the wall simply being pushed over. The concrete is carefully made and shaped, the tops of the walls being chamfered. It is possible that the walls are designed to prevent high seas washing up the slipway in the more exposed outer harbour, rather than being defensive.
Information from Gordon J Barclay to RCAHMS 18 August 2014.
Field Visit (4 August 2023)
The remains of a large concrete anti tank road block lies c10m to the SE of the blocked slipway is noted by Barclay (2013).
G Barclay 2013
