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A concrete pillbox or lookout, faced with stone and grass for camouflage.
(Source: Field Visit 1998/01/21)
Pillbox variant, built into corner of stone wall for camouflage.
(Source: Field Visit 1994/07/14)
A concrete and stone built pillbox on the NW side of Crail Airfield. It has been built into the corner of a stone wall and is well camouflaged.
(Source: NMR 1994)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (VARIANT)
      

      

        Location
        On the edge of Crail Airfield on the Wormiston / Kirklands Road.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Crail, Fife, Scotland

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            NO 6136 0917
             (Scale: 1:50000
              , 1993)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Concrete, 
            Stone
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Development (Medium Term) 
Detail: A possible housing development may threaten the site within a few years

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        McIntosh, Roy (Kilrenny & Anstruther Burgh Collection)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 RAF Crail defences - Ground, perimeter and ground-to-air defences. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        Additional information in John Guy's WW 1 & 2 Defences of Fife (see Scottish multi counties box).

      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (VARIANT) - S0001799
         

     (3) - external views (1 DIGITISED), one is in John Guy's WW 1 & 2 Defences of Fife (see Scottish multi counties box).  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0001799

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            Scottish NMR (ref: NO60NW49)
        
      

      

        Original Reference
        7122
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1994/07/14 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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