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Tentsmuir Forest
Pillbox (20th Century)
Site Name Tentsmuir Forest
Classification Pillbox (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Leuchars Airfield Defences; Tentsmuir Coastal Defences; Tentsmuir Sands
Canmore ID 84178
Site Number NO42SE 56
NGR NO 4982 2281
NGR Description NO c. 4982 2281
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/84178
- Council Fife
- Parish Leuchars
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
NO42SE 56 c. 4982 2281
For other military command, training and defensive structures on Tentsmuir Sands, see also:
NO42NE 71-3, 117 and 127
NO42SE 57 and NO42SE 77 -9 and 81
NO 4972 2278. Situated in sand dunes, S of Tentsmuir Forest and N of Leuchars Airfield is a steel domed pillbox. Of WW2 date, and similar to an Alan Williams turret it formed part of the airfield defences.
J Guy 1994; NMRS MS 810/3, 137-8.
Pillbox - sheet iron domed roof embedded into old dune.
Nearby: building - flat concrete roof - brick walls - collapsed and lying in heap.
Site recorded by Maritime Fife during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, Fife Ness to Newburgh 1996.
