Scheduled Monument
Pillbox, 150m WNW of The NeukSM8220
Status: Designated
Documents
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The legal document available for download below constitutes the formal designation of the monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. The additional details provided on this page are provided for information purposes only and do not form part of the designation. Historic Environment Scotland accepts no liability for any loss or damages arising from reliance on any inaccuracies within this additional information.
Summary
- Date Added
- 03/03/1999
- Last Date Amended
- 09/12/2025
- Type
- 20th Century Military and Related: Pillbox
- Local Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Parish
- Fraserburgh
- NGR
- NK 00029 65647
- Coordinates
- 400029, 865647
Description
The monument comprises a pillbox built during the Second World War. It was part of a system of defences designed to protect Fraserburgh Bay from seaborne landings. The pillbox (a type 24) is six-sided and has a door to the southwest, with a blast wall outside the doorway. It has a wide loophole in each of the other five sides. It is about 4m across and 1.6m high and is made of concrete. It is built on a flat sandy area just behind the beach to the west of Fraserburgh Bay.
The scheduled area is circular, measuring 10m in diameter, centred on the monument. It includes the remains described above and an area around within which evidence relating to the monument's construction, use and abandonment is expected to survive, as shown in red on the accompanying map.
Statement of National Importance
The monument is of national importance for its potential to contribute to an understanding of defence tactics in World War II. It is one of a group of surviving pillboxes which protected Fraserburgh Bay from enemy attack and invasion, one part of a complex system of wartime defences in the area. This monument is very well preserved and structurally stable.
References
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