Perth Aerodrome
Military Installation (20th Century)
Site Name Perth Aerodrome
Classification Military Installation (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Perth Airfield; Scone Aerodrome; Ast Perth; Scone Airfield
Canmore ID 188302
Site Number NO12NW 93
NGR NO 14679 28516
NGR Description Centred NO 14697 28281 and NO 14679 28516
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/188302
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Scone
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO12NW 93 centred 14697 28281 and 14679 28516
For the main part of Perth Aerodrome see also NO12NE 61.00
A group of mounds, possibly for the storage of ammunition or petrol, situated within Muirward Wood next to a forest road approximately a half mile W of the airfield.
Five long pyramidical mounds with their axis NE to SW with one much longer (100m) to the N running on an axis NW to SE. The longer mound is separated from the others by a brick wall and sunken road.
Information from Mr W Graham Watson, Perthshire Society of Natural Science, Archaeological and Historical Section, May 2001.
The installation is visible on RAF WW II vertical air photographs (NLA 68, 3071-3072, flown 27 August 1943), which shows two groups of four earth banked bays. Tracks from the airfield lead in from the SE and NE.
The two areas of 'bays' are depcited on the current OS 1:2500 scale digital map as are the tracks leading to them.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), September 2005
