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Brunton Barns-star-sandy Hill
Anti Tank Ditch (20th Century)
Site Name Brunton Barns-star-sandy Hill
Classification Anti Tank Ditch (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Fife Anti-tank Line; Command Line
Canmore ID 275095
Site Number NO30SW 30
NGR NO 3137 0373
NGR Description NO 3071 0187 to NO 3091 0499
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Fife
- Parish Kennoway
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Kirkcaldy
- Former County Fife
NO30SW 30.00 3071 0187 to 3091 0499
NO30SW 30.01 NO 3087 0303 Anti-tank Wall
A section of the Fife Anti-tank or Command Line has been identified from vertical air photographs (106G/Scot/UK 5, 3030-3032, 4030-4032, flown 4 April 1946).
The course of the anti-tank ditch is clearly visible on the photographs z-g-zagging N across fields from near the farm of Brunton Barns (NO30SW 116) to the E side of Cuinin Hill through the village of Star on passing to the E of Sandy Hill on to map sheet NO30NW.
Additonal to the ditch are an anti-tank wall (NO30SW 30.01) on the southern approach to Star village and another length of wall protecting the E side of the railway embankment at Northall (NO30SW 28) and a pillbox built to house an anti-tank gun W of Whitehill Plantation (NO30SW 29).
No sections of this part of the ditch appear to have survived.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), September 2005.
