Evanton Airfield
Pillbox (20th Century)
Site Name Evanton Airfield
Classification Pillbox (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Novar Camp; Evanton Airfield Defences
Canmore ID 119768
Site Number NH66NW 34.07
NGR NH 62785 66830
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/119768
- Council Highland
- Parish Kiltearn
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH66NW 34.07 62785 66830
(NH 6279 6683) A pillbox is situated on the E side of the airfield between a large ditch and the tidal area of Alness Bay.
The pillbox is unusual in having a dummy pitched roof on top to imitate a perimeter dispersal hut (Smith 1983).
Visited by RCAHMS (DE) January and May 1997
Pillbox - stable condition.
CFA/MORA Coastal Assessment Survey 1998.
This Type 27 pillbox is on the E side of the airfield. Constructed of brick and concrete.
J Guy 2000; NMRS MS 810/10, Vol.2, 97, Vol.3, 36
Field Visit (2013 - 2014)
ARCH Evanton Wartime Remains project record:
Brick and concrete, type 27 pillbox. The door and the post for the bren gun for the anti aircraft fire is still in situ. Until recently the pillbox had a corrugated roof on top, but this has blown off and is now in the grass beside it. The roof was thought to be a decoy for the building, but it does not appear on the 1944 aerial photograph. It is however there in the 1946 aerial photograph. Allan Kilpatrick (RCAHMS) believes that the roof was added to weather proof the gun pit in the roof after the war. The pillbox was probably sealed, perhaps post war, and the roof added, nailed into a skim of concrete laid around the rim. This would explain why such a large pillbox had such a small roof.
Visited by Scotland's Coastal Heritage at Risk (SCHARP) 2013
