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Bridge Of Dye, Pillboxes

Military Installation(S) (20th Century), Road Block (Second World War) (1940)

Site Name Bridge Of Dye, Pillboxes

Classification Military Installation(S) (20th Century), Road Block (Second World War) (1940)

Alternative Name(s) Cowie Stop Line; Water Of Dye; Glen Dye

Canmore ID 81624

Site Number NO68NE 9

NGR NO 6515 8613

NGR Description NO 6515 8613 and NO 6512 8613

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Strachan
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Kincardine And Deeside
  • Former County Kincardineshire

Archaeology Notes

NO68NE 9.00 6512 8612 and 6515 8713

For Bridge of Dye, see NO68NE 7.

NO68NE 9.01 NO 6515 8613 Pillbox

NO68NE 9.02 NO 6512 8613 Pillbox

Two stone built pillboxes are situated on either side of the old B974 public road at Bridge of Dye.

Information from Defence of Britain Project recording form, (D Keay), 1996

Bridge of Dye, pillboxes. The monument comprises the remains of two pillboxes of the 1939-45 war, situated to the E of the original line of the B974 Cairn o'Mount road. The new line of the B974 now runs between them.

The structures appear to be part of a line designed to block the passes across the Mounth and the hills to the west, to halt any southern-moving invasion force arriving on the beaches of Aberdeenshire. The structures may therefore be considered to be an extension of the stop line along the Cowie Water to the east. However, the firing slits on the boxes seem as much to cover the southern as the northern approaches; indeed their position on the north side of the river suggests they may be designed to stop a north-moving force.

Both pillboxes are built into, and are carefully disguised to look like, the red granite wall surrounding the garden of the farmhouse. The eastern pillbox is rectangular, c. 5m by 3m. The western pillbox is fitted into the the curved NW corner of the wall as it turns to the south.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 28 February 2000.

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