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Kirkton Airfield

Airfield (20th Century), Pit(S) (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)

Site Name Kirkton Airfield

Classification Airfield (20th Century), Pit(S) (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)

Canmore ID 91607

Site Number NH89NW 27

NGR NH 8000 9816

NGR Description Centred NH 8000 9816

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Golspie
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Sutherland
  • Former County Sutherland

Archaeology Notes

NH89NW 27 centred 8000 9816

Part of this airfield falls on map sheet NH79NE

A Satellite Landing Ground (SLG), an old watch office bungalow and a few buildings survive with concrete bases.

D J Smith 1983

This grass airfield is situated on the S side of the A9 (T), two miles W of Golspie. Only a few small buildings are extant and in very poor condition. The watch house (bungalow) described by Smith (Smith 1983) has now been demolished and a new house built on the site.

J Guy 2000; NMRS MS 810/10, Vol.2, 92

The extreme E part of this Satellite Landing Ground is visible on wartime RAF vertical air photographs (NLA 33, 2.26-2.27, flown 11 April 1942). Dispersed aircraft are noted in fields to the NW and SW of a modern house annotated 'Kilmaree' (NH 79916 98328) on the OS Explorer 1:25000 scale map and the E end of the grass runway.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), February 2003

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