Tain Airfield, No.4 Dispersal Site

Building(S) (20th Century)

Site Name Tain Airfield, No.4 Dispersal Site

Classification Building(S) (20th Century)

Canmore ID 117567

Site Number NH88SW 14.09

NGR NH 82489 81917

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/117567

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DP 342656

Aerial view of Tain bombing range, Tarbat Ness, looking N.

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Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

19/2/2012

SC 2567945

Tain Airfield, No.4 dipersal area. Detail of accomodation huts of wooden construction, still in use. These buildings are probably pre-war, being used as part of the original pre-war Bombing Range, view from SE.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

7/5/1997

SC 2567946

Tain Airfield, No.4 dispersal area. Detail of accomodation huts of wooden construction still in use. These buildings are probably pre-war being used as part of the original pre-war Bombing Range, view from SE.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

7/5/1997

SC 2567949

Tain Airfield, No.4 dispersal area. Garage and transport buildings re-used from original Bombing Range, view from S.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

7/5/1997

SC 2567947

Tain Airfield, No.4 dispersal area. Accomodation and transport buildings of wooden construction, originally part of the pre-war Bombing Range, still in use. View from SE.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

7/5/1997

DP 341361

Oblique aerial view of Tain airfield and the Dornoch Firth, looking NW.

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Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

19/5/2008

SC 2567944

Tain Airfield, No.4 dispersal area. Accomodation huts of wooden construction, probably pre-war, now in use as temporary hutting. Part of original pre-war Bombing Range, view from SE.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

7/5/1997

SC 2567940

Tain Airfield, No.4 dispersal site. Wooden accomodation huts probably pre-war, now in use as temporary hutting. Part of original pre-war Bombing Range, view from SE.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

7/5/1997

SC 2567948

Tain Airfield, No.4 dispersal area. Accomodation and transport buildings of wooden construction, originally part of the pre-war Bombing Range and still in use. View from SE.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

7/5/1997

SC 2567950

Tain Airfield, No.4 dispersal site. Garage and transport buildings re-used from original Bombing Range, view from S.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

7/5/1997

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Administrative Areas

Council Highland
Parish Tain
Former Region Highland
Former District Ross And Cromarty
Former County Ross And Cromarty

Archaeology Notes

NH88SW 14.09 82489 81917

Situated some 500m NW of the airfield control tower (NH88SW 14.05) immediately N of the public road leading to the bombing range is a small group of wooden buildings. The group consists of three rows of huts joined in a half H shape with one further hut to the NE. A fuel tank lies in the central area and all the buildings are surrounded by what appears to be an original white painted fence.

The buildings lie in an area originally part of Tain airfield, known as No.4 dispersal site (RAF archive 77/1/1413) and the RAF (Archive) plan annotates them as the original Tain bombing range buildings.

Visited by RCAHMS (DE) May 1997

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