EAB20824 - Survey by Admiral Dreyer of WWII Defences between Burghead and Findhorn

Anti-invasion measures included anti-aircraft stakes, triple Dannert wire rolls placed just below the High Water Mark (HWM), and anti-tank cubes just above HWM with pillboxes for machine guns (n = 24) and anti-tank guns (n = 34) at intervals along the beach. This beach was also used for training for the D-Day landings, and some of the 1940-1941 structures may have been blown up for this purpose. The remains are now on the beach or intertidal zone, although in 1940 they appear to have been above the HWM. Three types of pillbox were used: seven truncated hexagons at the western end (see also MAB4000), four rectangular machine gun pillboxes in the central section, and nine Type 24 in the east. The remains of three roadblocks through the cubes onto the beach remain. Between October 1940 and June 1941 this stretch of beach between Findhorn and Burghead was the responsibility of 200th Pioneer Company. Military records suggest that much of the bay may also have been covered with anti-glider poles, and a number of these are visible at low tides.