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Belhaven Bay, Aircraft Immobilisation Posts
Anti Glider Posts (20th Century)
Site Name Belhaven Bay, Aircraft Immobilisation Posts
Classification Anti Glider Posts (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Hedderwick Sands
Canmore ID 113792
Site Number NT67NW 74
NGR NT 6360 7900
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/113792
- Council East Lothian
- Parish Dunbar
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District East Lothian
- Former County East Lothian
NT67NW 74 6360 7900
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.
GUARD 1996
A long line of wooden posts run across Belhaven Bay. The posts are 0.25m in diameter and are set in concrete, the posts are approximately 25m apart. Two rows dissect the main row at right angles, the lines of posts are visible on both sides of Hedderwick Hill Plantation. The posts are probably the remains of a WW2 glider trap and are being eroded at some places and covered by sand and mud in others, all wooden posts appear to be rotting.
Site recorded by GUARD during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, 'The Firth of Forth from Dunbar to the Coast of Fife' 16th February 1996.
Site recorded from draft text of Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1996 (ref: 96/580), held by Council for Scottish Archaeology.
CSA 1996
These anti-glider posts are now only visible as lines of short posts at low water. The posts have been cut short or broken off. They were constructed by inserting a length of sewer pipe into the sand and then inserting a wooden pole into this, concrete is then poured into the remaining space in the pipe.
J A Guy 1997, NMRS MS 810/5, 197, 198
Field Visit (16 February 1996)
A long line of wooden posts run across Belhaven Bay. The posts are 0.25m in diameter and are set in concrete, the posts are approximately 25m apart. Two rows dissect the main row at right angles, the lines of posts are visible on both sides of Hedderwick Hill Plantation. The posts are probably the remains of a WW2 glider trap and are being eroded at some places and covered by sand and mud in others, all wooden posts appear to be rotting.
Site recorded by GUARD during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, 'The Firth of Forth from Dunbar to the Coast of Fife' 16th February 1996.
