Rattray Head

NK15NW 1.00 centred 1032 5767

NB: Part of this system falls on map sheet NK05NE.

For other components of the anti-tank line see NK05NE 17.00 and NK05NE 24 NK06SE 10.00, NK15NW 1.00 and NK15SW 6.00

NK15NW 1.01 NK 10325 57646 Pillbox

NK15NW 1.02 NK 1011 5798 Pillbox

NK15NW 1.03 NK 10047 57254 Pillbox

NK15NW 1.04 cancelled see NK05NE 62

NK15NW 1.05 NK 0993 5626 Pillbox (map sheet NK05NE)

NK15NW 1.06 NK 0981 5587 Pillbox (map sheet NK05NE)

NK15NW 1.07 NK 09942 55573 Pillbox (map sheet NK05NE)

NK15NW 1.08 NK c. 1053 5805 Anti-Tank Blocks

NK15NW 1.09 NK 09977 55035 Pillbox (possible) (map sheet NK05NE)

NK15NW 1.10 NK 09798 55735 Pillbox (map sheet NK05NE)

Forming part of the anti-tank stop line which runs from St Combs to Annachie Bridge. An anti-tank stop line of which the major component is the anti-tank ditch begins at the SE corner of Loch of Strathbeg at Starnakeppie with a further section to the N of the loch running to St Combs. The anti-tank ditch runs S immediately inland from the dune system for about 6,500m from the Loch of Strathbeg to Annachie Bridge (NK 1050 5315, NK15SW). The ditch is visible on several series of post-war vertical air photographs (106G/Scot/UK 107, 3002-3, flown 23 May 1946; 106G/Scot/ UK 135, 1001-5, flown 30 June 1946).

Immediately to the W are a series of pillboxes (NK15NW 17.01-07) that appear to be located at a point where the ditch changes direction and during the war, most would appear to have been surrounded by a barbed-wire enclosure. Some sections of this ditch now form part of the modern farm drainage system and are depicted on the OS 1:10000 map (1975).

Information from RCAHMS (DE), December 2001