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East Fortune Airfield, Accommodation Camps
Military Camp(S) (20th Century)
Site Name East Fortune Airfield, Accommodation Camps
Classification Military Camp(S) (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Peffer Burn
Canmore ID 271625
Site Number NT57NE 72.03
NGR NT 5545 7772
NGR Description NT 5545 7771, 5575 7767, 5530 7740, 5565 7745
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/271625
- Council East Lothian
- Parish Athelstaneford
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District East Lothian
- Former County East Lothian
NT57NE 72.02 5545 7771, 5575 7767, 5530 7740, 5565 7745
Five small hutted camps have been identified from RAF WW II vertical air photographs (NLA 68, 3041-3049,4041-4049, flown 26 August 1943) and postwar vertical air photographs (106G/SCOT/UK14, 5363-5364, flown 1946), in fields to the SE of the airfield and NW of the Peffer Burn.
The camp huts are mainly wooden, but interspersed among these are several Nissen types.
All the camps have been demolished and the fields have been returned to agricultural use.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), March 2005
