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Castle View, Type 27 Pillbox
Anti Tank Blocks (20th Century), Pillbox (20th Century)
Site Name Castle View, Type 27 Pillbox
Classification Anti Tank Blocks (20th Century), Pillbox (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Red Castle; Bents Cottage
Canmore ID 143531
Site Number NO65SE 41
NGR NO 68939 50961
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/143531
- Council Angus
- Parish Inverkeilor
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO65SE 41 68939 50961
Concrete and brick type 27 pillbox has been identified from oblique aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 1995), on the sand dunes to the SE of Red Castle (NO65SE 10).
Information from RCAHMS (KJ), 14 April 1999.
NO 6895 5097. A concrete and brick type 27 pillbox is situated on the S bank of the mouth of the Lunan Water. There is no anti-aircraft well in the roof and below where this should be located is a small room inside the pillbox.
J Guy 2000; NMRS MS 810/9
The pillbox is visble on RAF WW II vertical and oblique air photographs (D309, 5028-5029, flown 26 June 1941 and 309-22 261, undated c.1941), which show that it is situated at the edge of the dune system immediately above the high water mark. Also visible on the photographs is a short stretch of anti-tank blocks situated on the S side of the pillbox and which run in a SW - NE direction into the mouth of the Lunan Water. It is not known whether the blocks survive in the dunes.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), October 2005.
Field Visit (2013 - 2014)
A concrete and brick type 27 pillbox. There is no anti-aircraft well in the roof and bellow where it should be there is a small room inside. Anti tank blocks are located 5m to the south of the pillbox.
Visited by Scotland's Coastal Heritage at Risk (SCHARP) 2013
