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Crail Airfield
Pillbox (20th Century)
Site Name Crail Airfield
Classification Pillbox (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Crail Airfield Defences
Canmore ID 251188
Site Number NO60NW 49.13
NGR NO 62894 08542
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/251188
- Council Fife
- Parish Crail
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
NO60NW 49.13 62894 08542
Circular stone feature, very regular in shape. Visible on vertical air photograph (106G/SCOT/UK5 Photo Number 4079 dated 14.4.46)
Site recorded by Maritime Fife during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, Kincardine to Fife Ness 1996
A pillbox, possibly a type 27, is situated about 300m SW of a promontory annotated Kilminning Castle and 130m NE of a building annotated Goats on the OS 1:10000 chart copy map (1972) and is also shown on the current OS digital 1:2500 scale map. It is also visible on postwar RAF vertical air photographs (106G/Scot/UK5, 4079-4080, flown 14 April 1946).
Information from RCAHMS (DE), October 2003
