Aberdour, Pans Rocks
Anti Aircraft Battery (20th Century)
Site Name Aberdour, Pans Rocks
Classification Anti Aircraft Battery (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Rng6; Forth Aa Defences
Canmore ID 84255
Site Number NT18SE 32
NGR NT 1911 8478
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Fife
- Parish Aberdour (Dunfermline)
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Dunfermline
- Former County Fife
NT18SE 32 1911 8478
This WW2 battery was situated just W of Aberdour Golf Course club house and has been completely cleared away to form part of the golf course.
J Guy 1994; NMRS MS 810/3.
The heavy anti-aircraft battery is visible on postwar vertical air photographs (106G/UK 1326, 5352-53, flown 28 March 1946) in an area now shown as a golf course on the OS 1:10000 scale map (1984).
Four gun-emplacements with a command centre are visible with the accommodation camp, consisting mainly of Nissen huts, situated to the NE. About 100m to the NW, traces of the radar installation (GL-mat), the hexagonal mat area and central ramp clearly visible on the photographs.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), October 2003
Designated RNG 6 by the War Office, this heavy anti-aircraft battery was armed with four 3.7-inch static guns in June 1942 and by November 1943 a GL Mk II radar unit had been provided. The Public record Office War Office documents show that it had been disarmed by May 1945 (WO 166/11169 and WO 166/16650).
The documetns also show that it was designated as 229 Battery in 1940 which changed to 540 in 1942 and 36 Brigade and 71 Regiment, later 158 Regiment in 1942.
N Redfern 1998
