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Inverbervie, Craig David, Underground Headquarters, Aerial Field
Radar Site (20th Century), Radio Mast (20th Century)
Site Name Inverbervie, Craig David, Underground Headquarters, Aerial Field
Classification Radar Site (20th Century), Radio Mast (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Craigdavid; Bervie Brow; Inverbervie
Canmore ID 122204
Site Number NO87SW 65.01
NGR NO 8407 7348
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/122204
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Kinneff
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Kincardineshire
NO87SW 65.01 8416 7333
Vertical air photography (Fairey Coastal Colour 7343 3212-13, flown 11 August 1973) has recorded a small radio station about 150m SE of the underground headquarters and probably associated with it; it has been approached up a continuation of the same track and is situated on the highest point of Bervie Brow at an altitude of 137m OD, from where it commands a wide view out over the North Sea. A single pole mast of considerable height stands within a fenced enclosure and has a small hut (possibly to contain amplifiers) at the base. Situated 50m to the NNE and 40m to the SW respectively, there are square bases which have apparently supported radio or radar antennae of considerable size.
The earliest-available vertical air photography (540/RAF/1383 F21 0303-4, flown 7 August 1954) records what are probably radar heads (revealed by their shadows) on both bases and imagery (540/RAF/1383 F21 0303-4) of August 1954 records what is probably a radar head on the more northerly base; in neither form can the type or form of the antenna be distinguished. Air photography of 1967 (OS 67/059/084-5, flown 25 April 1967 and OS 67/287/027-8, flown 27 July 1967) records only the two bases and a small hut to the W; the radar heads had evidently been removed by that date but the pole mast was only erected later.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 October 1997.
