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Inverkeithing, Spencerfield

Barrage Balloon Site (Second World War)

Site Name Inverkeithing, Spencerfield

Classification Barrage Balloon Site (Second World War)

Alternative Name(s) Forth Aa Defences

Canmore ID 272970

Site Number NT18SW 213.20

NGR NT 1393 8277

NGR Description c. NT 1393 8277

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Fife
  • Parish Inverkeithing
  • Former Region Fife
  • Former District Dunfermline
  • Former County Fife

Archaeology Notes

NT18SW 213.20 c.1393 8277

A barrage balloon mooring site has been identified from a RAF WW II vertical air photograph (FNO/106, 6.024, flown 20 August 1942), in an area immediately S of a track leading to Spencerfield farmsteading and N of Preston Hill.

The circle of mooring blocks is visible on the photograph with one hut to the W.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), June 2005

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