Cockburnspath, Hawk's Heugh, Ground Control Intercept Centimetric Radar Station

NT77SE 71.00 7882 7149

NT77SE 71.01 NT 7877 7147 Pillbox (Possible)

NT77SE 71.02 NT 7894 7146 Pillbox (Possible)

Roofed structures seen on 1946 aerial photographs, probably a barracks block or office.

Lowrey (ed) 1995 82-3 B17 5215-8 15/4/46.

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

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.

NT 788 714 WW2 defences

Sponsor: Historic Scotland

GUARD 1996.

A possible Chain Home Low Radar Station with two possible type 27 pillboxes. The radar station was associated with Drem Airfield Royal Naval squadrons as their ground radar site.

The RAF tended to use type 27 pillboxes, which had a pit in the centre to accommodate a light Anti-Aircraft position.

Information from J Guy, as per telephone call, July 1997.

In addition to this radar station's principal role as an air defence radar it was also used for training in night interception techniques. The following types of centimetric equipment all operating on a wavelength of 10 centimetres could be found at this site; Type 8, mobile G.C.I., 13, height finder; Type 15, mobile G.C.I. type 8 renumbered and 50, surface watching set radar. This was an extremely short wavelength compared to the CHL (around 10 metres) and produced a very narrow beam which resulted in highly accurate radars.

Information from Mr I Brown to RCAHMS, 19 October 1998

A Chain Home Low radar station situated at the E end of a track that runs E from Cove farm. The radar buildings have been demolished and all that remains is an area of rough ground with some brick and concrete lying about.

J Guy 1999, NMRS MS 810/8, 45-6

Mr I Brown has provided corrections to the above text. The list of equipment supplied to the station includes the Type 8 and Type 15 radars which were not centrimetric and the Chain Home Low did not operate on a wavelength around 10 metres. Not all the above equipment operated on a 10cm wavelength.

Information via e-mail from Mr I Brown, 21 October 2005.