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Carnoustie, Barry Sands

Pillbox (20th Century)

Site Name Carnoustie, Barry Sands

Classification Pillbox (20th Century)

Canmore ID 222377

Site Number NO53SE 12.04

NGR NO 5588 3297

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

NO53SE 12.04 5588 3297

A pillbox has been indentified from post-war vertical air photographs (RAF 106G/Scot/UK 55 part I, 5038-40, flown 8 May 1946) just above the high water mark about 34m E of a target shed depicted on the OS 1:10000 map.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), October 2002

The pillbox or blockhouse is visible on RAF WW II oblique aerial photographs (S 223, 58-59, flown 17 June 1946), as a Y-shaped concrete structure. It is situated just above the high tide mark and on a single line of anti-tank blocks and to the NE of a firing range (NO53SE 37) on the Barry Buddon training area. The pillbox is seen more clearly on large scale postwar vertical air photographs noted above (ibid).

Information from RCAHMS (DE), October 2005

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