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Ladybank, Gravel Pit Wood
Anti Tank Blocks (20th Century), Anti Tank Ditch (20th Century)
Site Name Ladybank, Gravel Pit Wood
Classification Anti Tank Blocks (20th Century), Anti Tank Ditch (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Fife Anti-tank Line; Command Line
Canmore ID 84173
Site Number NO31SW 94
NGR NO 3125 1043
NGR Description From NO 3124 1043 to NO 3107 1104
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/84173
- Council Fife
- Parish Collessie
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
NO31SW 94.00 3125 1043 and 3124 1043 to 3107 1104
NO31SW 94.01 NO 31246 10470 Pillbox
A type 24 pillbox with two anti-tank pimples and an anti-tank ditch are situated to the E of Ladybank, on either side of the main railway line from Edinburgh to Dundee. The brick and concrete pillbox has walls 1.7m in thickness, and the group formed part of the Fife anti-tank line.
J guy 1994; NMRS MS 810/3, 215-16
The anti-tank ditch is visible on post-war vertical air photographs (541/A/481, 4130-1, flown 21 June 1949) running NNW from the main Edinburgh to Dundee railway line to a point about 300m SW of Annsmuir farmsteading (NO 3133 1120) taking a dogleg at NO c.3108 1083 to head N to its terminal.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), December 2001
A Dick Peddie and Mckay drawing (DPM/1940/115/1/3) for the proposed site of the Prisoner-of-war camp at Annsmuir depicts part of the anti-tank ditch. It shows that the ditch took the N side of the Edinburgh to Dundee railway as it curves NE from Ladybank Station and then N towards the site of the camp as stated above.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), May 2005
