Kincardine On Forth Road Bridge, Higgins' Neuck

NS98NW 281 920 870

See also NS98NW 346.

Site recorded during a rapid coastal survey undertaken by GUARD of the S shore of the Firth of Forth from Dunbar to Stirling and along the N shore of the Forth to the Fife border. A gazetteer of all sites including listed buildings, designed landscapes, scheduled and unscheduled monuments was produced. Full details of the survey can be consulted in the report held by the NMRS.

NS 920 870 WW2 defences

Sponsor: Historic Scotland

GUARD 1996

This site is unlikely to have been a heavy anti-aircaftt battery as recorded by GUARD, it is not recorded in official sources and there is no evidence for it on wartime or immediate post-war vertical air photography.

There is a loopholed wall along the old ferry road on the SW side of the Kincardine Bridge (NS98NW 59).

J Guy 1999; NMRS MS 810/7, 24-5, P4

The loopholed walls are situated to the W of the southern approach road to the Kincardine Bridge. They run from Higgins' Neuck farmsteading to the high water mark on the River Forth. The loopholes are located in two parallel walls and in four groups. There is one group in both the western and eastern walls, opposite each other with one at the S end the other at the N end of the two walls. The loopholes are unusual in that they grouped in threes, one large and two small, with the embrasures made of concrete and stepped inwards.

Visited by D Easton, 25 August 2001

Anti-aircraft gun emplacement seen on 1946 aerial photographs. B56 3293-4 10/5/46.

Site recorded by GUARD during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, 'The Firth of Forth from Dunbar to the Coast of Fife' 1996.