Dalgety Bay, Temple Plantation, Decoy Anti-aircraft Battery
Decoy Site (20th Century)
Site Name Dalgety Bay, Temple Plantation, Decoy Anti-aircraft Battery
Classification Decoy Site (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Tattie Knoll; Braefoot
Canmore ID 221789
Site Number NT18SE 45
NGR NT 1785 8408
NGR Description Centred NT 1785 8408
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/221789
- Council Fife
- Parish Dalgety
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Dunfermline
- Former County Fife
NT18SE 45 centred 1785 8408
A decoy or dummy heavy anti-aircraft battery has been identified from a RAF post-war vertical air photograph, (106G/UK/983, 4343, flown 8 November 1945) in a field to the S of Tattie Knoll. Visible are four dummy emplacements, command centre and what be dummy machine gun positions, all set within a fenced enclosure. To the N are several huts.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), September 2002
