Black Bar
Anti Glider Posts (Second World War), Anti Invasion Defence Site (Second World War)
Site Name Black Bar
Classification Anti Glider Posts (Second World War), Anti Invasion Defence Site (Second World War)
Canmore ID 367250
Site Number NK06SE 23
NGR NK 0702 6031
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/367250
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Lonmay
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Note (15 January 2021)
Situated within the inter-tidal zone by the outlet from the Loch of Strathbeg is an area of flat beach, which during World War Two, had a series of wooden posts laid out in grid like fashion similar to other anti glider posts found around coastal sites. They are visible on RAF air photographs M/117/S307 0054-8 (flown 8 July 1941). Unlike other sites where Anti Glider post are formed of a single post set vertically, these appear to comprise three timber posts in a tripod arrangement. This has lead the Pillbox Study Group to suggest that these are anti invasion beach obstacles.
Also visible in the same series of RAF photographs is a small island (NK 07016 60540) surrounded by a barded wire enclosure which suggests some form of defensive strongpoint.
Information from Pillbox Study Group and HES (AKK) 15 January 2021
