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Edinburgh, Silverknowes, Decoy Anti-aircraft Battery
Decoy Site (20th Century)
Site Name Edinburgh, Silverknowes, Decoy Anti-aircraft Battery
Classification Decoy Site (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Forth Aa Defences; Silverknowes Golf Course
Canmore ID 120033
Site Number NT27NW 51
NGR NT 2060 7690
NGR Description Centred NT 2060 7690
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/120033
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT27NW 51 Centred 2060 7690
For Starfish decoy site see also NT17NE 212
The site of heavy anti-aircraft battery was situated in an area on the N side of Silverknowes Golf Course, some 200m W of the Present Commodore Hotel. It is not known what calibre of gun was mounted at this battery. The accommodation huts, mainly Nissen type were to the E of the gun-emplacements.
Information from RCAHMS (DE) August 1997
This gun site was a decoy anti-aircraft battery with dummy guns using wooden poles for the gun barrels set in turf walled emplacements.
Information from Mr Brown, Davidsons Mains, Edinburgh, March 1999
Visible on RAF WW II vertical air photographs (NLA 14, 619-621, 19 June 1941), on the N part of Silverknowes Golf Course.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), March 2005
