Dornoch Airfield | Canmore

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Archaeology Notes

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Airfield (20th Century)

Site Name Dornoch Airfield

Classification Airfield (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Dornoch Landing Strip

Canmore ID 93105

Site Number NH88NW 4

NGR NH 8004 8842

NGR Description Centred NH 8004 8842

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Digital Images

An oblique aerial view of Dornoch airstrip, East Sutherland, looking NW.

DP 341357

An oblique aerial view of Dornoch airstrip, East Sutherland, looking NW.

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Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

19/5/2008

© Copyright: NOSAS (James S Bone Collection). Courtesy of HES.

Oblique aerial view of Royal Dornoch golf course and airfield, looking ESE.

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Oblique aerial view of Royal Dornoch golf course and airfield, looking ESE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

24/7/2010

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Aerial view of Dornoch Airfield, Easter Ross, looking E.

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Aerial view of Dornoch Airfield, Easter Ross, looking E.

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Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

2004

© Copyright: NOSAS (James S Bone Collection). Courtesy of HES.

Aerial view of Dornoch Golf Course, caravan park and Airfield, East Sutherland, looking E.

DP 342528

Aerial view of Dornoch Golf Course, caravan park and Airfield, East Sutherland, looking E.

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Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

30/7/2011

© Copyright: NOSAS (James S Bone Collection). Courtesy of HES.

Distant aerial view of Dornoch, East Sutherland, looking N.

DP 342657

Distant aerial view of Dornoch, East Sutherland, looking N.

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Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

19/2/2012

© Copyright: NOSAS (James S Bone Collection). Courtesy of HES.

Aerial view of Dornoch Airfield, East Sutherland, looking NE.

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Aerial view of Dornoch Airfield, East Sutherland, looking NE.

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Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

7/1997

© Copyright: NOSAS (James S Bone Collection). Courtesy of HES.

Aerial view of Dornoch and surrounding fields, East Sutherland, looking S.

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Aerial view of Dornoch and surrounding fields, East Sutherland, looking S.

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Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

28/1/1998

© Copyright: NOSAS (James S Bone Collection). Courtesy of HES.

Aerial view of Dornoch Point (airfield and possible coastal defences) and sand banks, looking E.

DP 341008

Aerial view of Dornoch Point (airfield and possible coastal defences) and sand banks, looking E.

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Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

20/1/2008

© Copyright: NOSAS (James S Bone Collection). Courtesy of HES.

Aerial view of Dornoch Point (airfield and possible coastal defences) and sand banks, looking E.

DP 341009

Aerial view of Dornoch Point (airfield and possible coastal defences) and sand banks, looking E.

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Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

20/1/2008

© Copyright: NOSAS (James S Bone Collection). Courtesy of HES.

Oblique aerial view

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Oblique aerial view

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Papers of Professor Geraint Dyfed Barri Jones, archaeologist, Manchester, England

© Courtesy of HES (G D B Jones Collection)

Aerial view of Dornoch Golf Course, caravan park and Airfield, East Sutherland, looking NE.

DP 342527

Aerial view of Dornoch Golf Course, caravan park and Airfield, East Sutherland, looking NE.

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Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

30/7/2011

© Copyright: NOSAS (James S Bone Collection). Courtesy of HES.

An oblique aerial view of Dornoch airstrip, East Sutherland, looking NW.

Oblique aerial view of Royal Dornoch golf course and airfield, looking ESE.

Aerial view of Dornoch Airfield, Easter Ross, looking E.

Aerial view of Dornoch Golf Course, caravan park and Airfield, East Sutherland, looking E.

Distant aerial view of Dornoch, East Sutherland, looking N.

Aerial view of Dornoch Airfield, East Sutherland, looking NE.

Aerial view of Dornoch and surrounding fields, East Sutherland, looking S.

Aerial view of Dornoch Point (airfield and possible coastal defences) and sand banks, looking E.

Aerial view of Dornoch Point (airfield and possible coastal defences) and sand banks, looking E.

Oblique aerial view

Aerial view of Dornoch Golf Course, caravan park and Airfield, East Sutherland, looking NE.

Collections

Administrative Areas

Council Highland
Parish Dornoch
Former Region Highland
Former District Sutherland
Former County Sutherland

Archaeology Notes

NH88NW 4 centred 8004 8842

(NH 800 885) Selected as a Satellite Landing Ground it closed during 1945. Re-opening in 1967, services to Inverness and Wick proved uneconomic. Occasionally still used.

D J Smith 1983.

Dornoch airstrip is situated to the S of the town and W of the dunes. Only the airstrip could be seen on the date of visit.

J Guy 2000; NMRS MS 810/10, Vol.2, 109

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