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Corbie Knowe

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Anti Tank Blocks (20th Century)

Site Name Corbie Knowe

Classification Anti Tank Blocks (20th Century)

Canmore ID 143854

Site Number NO64NE 73

NGR NO 6926 4887

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the mound, possible enclosure and anti-tank blocks at Corbie Knowe, looking to the N.
Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the mound, possible enclosure and anti-tank blocks at Corbie Knowe, looking to the N.Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the mound, possible enclosure and anti-tank blocks at Corbie Knowe, looking to the ENE.Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the mound, possible enclosure and anti-tank blocks at Corbie Knowe, looking to the SE.Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the mound, possible enclosure and anti-tank blocks at Corbie Knowe, looking to the SE.Corbie Knowe, oblique aerial view, taken from the NNW, showing a mound and a possible enclosure, a building and two areas with anti-tank-blocks. Cropmarks and pits are visible in the top right-hand corner of the photograph.

Administrative Areas

  • Council Angus
  • Parish Inverkeilor
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Angus
  • Former County Angus

Archaeology Notes

NO64NE 73 6926 4887

Oblique aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 1995) show two areas of anti-tank blocks (at NO 6926 4887 and NO 6929 4881), situated on the high water point on the shoreline at Bird's Knap, Lunan Bay. The anti-tank blocks are also visible on WW II vertical aerial photographs (RAF 772.H21.140 6.63, flown 1942).

Information from RCAHMS (KJ) 20 April 1999.

A line of concrete anti-tank blocks along the beach E of Corbie Knowe.

J Guy 2000; NMRS MS 810/9

Three lengths of anti-tank blocks are visible around Corbie Knowe on RAF WW II and postwar vertical air photographs (D309, 5025-5026, flown 26 June 1941 and 106G/Scot/UK 128, Pt.III, 6231-6232, flown 25 June 1946 respectively.

The length noted by Guy (J Guy 2000) and RCAHMS (1999), ran N-S along the beach at high water mark, whilst the two other lengths, one running diagonally across the Keilor Burn and the road from Inverkeilor at a point just above the beach (c.NO 6929 4879), with another short v-shaped section (c.NO 6931 4878), protecting the point at which the Keilor Burn disgorged on to the beach.

The length covering the road has been removed, but the short v-shaped section is visible on an oblique aerial photographs taken in 1995 (RCAHMS 1995).

Information from RCAHMS (DE), October 2005

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