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Fraserburgh Bay, Type 24 Pillbox
Pillbox (20th Century)
Site Name Fraserburgh Bay, Type 24 Pillbox
Classification Pillbox (20th Century)
Canmore ID 81290
Site Number NK06NW 6
NGR NK 02896 65000
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/81290
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Rathen
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NK06NW 6 029896 65000
This pillbox is situated in the dunes at the E end of Fraserburgh Bay, E of the Water of Philorth. A type 24 with six sides, door and five loopholes. There is no inner ricochet wall, but there are concrete tables for machine guns underneath the loopholes. The pillbox has slipped down the dune and is partly filled with sand.
J Guy 1992; MS810/1, 61
The pillbox is visible on RAF World War II aerial photographs (S319.H53.1416, frames 10-12, flown 11 July 1941) immediately inland from a double line of anti-tank blocks.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), August 2001
Field Visit (September 2022)
Visited during fieldwork by SCAPE. No changes to description.
Information from S. Boyd and J. Hambly - Scottish Coastal Archaeology and the Problem of Erosion (SCAPE).
