Building record MAB27247 - DRUMS LINKS

A World War II pill box, part of the coastal defence, now angled over due to coastal erosion.

A World War II pill box, part of the coastal defence, now angled over due to coastal erosion. The hexagonal pillbox is exposed within a break in the dunes above the high water mark, about 200m north-northeast of the terminus of the trackway that leads towards the farm-buildings at Drums steading. The pill-box, which is of Wills' (1985) type 24 faces towards the sea and the entrance is at the centre of the long rear wall on the west. The other five walls are each pierced by a single embrasure. The interior measures 5.15m from north to south by 4.7m transversely and 2m in height, and the walls are 0.38m thick. There is no anti-ricochet wall, but a concrete shelf 1.1m wide and 0.9m high, supported on a series of brick columns, extends around all sides except the rear. The grain on the surface of the concrete from which it has been fabricated indicates that it was built with the aid of timber shuttering, and the whole structure is founded upon a concrete raft 0.5m thick. This is anchored by four large rectangular piles, which, although now entirely exposed through wind erosion, were originally buried deep in the sand. That on the southwest still retains remnants of the original timber shuttering adhering to its face.

BARCLAY, G, 2013, IF HITLER COMES. PREPARING FOR INVASION: SCOTLAND 1940, pp202-7 (Bibliographic reference). SAB3792.

Apr 10 1997 , AAS/97/04/CT29,32, AAS/97/04/CT29,32 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB16687.

Apr 10 1997 , AAS/97/04/G8/1,2, AAS/97/04/G8/1,2 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB16686.

Feb 3 2000 , AAS/00/03/G6/7, AAS/00/03/G6/7 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB12276.

Jan 25 1999 , AAS/99/01/CT2, AAS/99/01/CT2 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB17120.

Jan 25 1999 , AAS/99/01/G17/26, AAS/99/01/G17/26 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB17119.

Nov 11 1993 , AAS/93/15/G30/23-4, AAS/93/15/G30/23-4 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB14787.

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Jan 15 2021 4:26PM