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Portkil Pillboxes
A six sided asymmetric concrete pillbox can be found at the seaward end of a garden on Fort Road, and appears to have been converted into a store, with the addition of door and windows.
A short distance along the shore to the west, a second pillbox can be found, of a two storey design similar to one constructed near Cloch Point. This is probably more correctly described as a searchlight platform, and would probably have housed a generator to power the searchlight. This structure appears to have been converted into a small outhouse at some time in the past, with the addition of windows, but appeared to derelict at the time of the visit (2003), with the windows having been smashed, leaving the interior open to the weather.
There may be a third pillbox between the two noted here.
This may have been missed during the visit, and only came to mind later, and would need a revisit to confirm, as the structure may be incorporated into one of the shore side houses. Photographs taken at the time missed the detail needed to confirm this later, as they were not taken with this possibility in mind.
Photographs
External links
Related Canmore/RCAHMS and ScotlandsPlaces (SP) entries:-
- Defence of Britain entry: Pillbox
- Area history Dead link 2013
Aerial views
- Old OS maps
- Nearby geocaches
- Bing Maps
- OS Get-a-map™
- Fly to in Google Earth
- SABRE - Maps (has many options) WiP - Needs lat/lon edit!
- Flash Earth
- EarthTools - disabled
- Coming
Map
The actual positions are marked, together with the positions reported by RCAHMS.
⚠ (:gma-point lat=55.9839924 lon=-4.8012547 link='Pillbox visible in garden':)
⚠ (:gma-point lat=55.9831176 lon=-4.8024523 link='Platform visible to west':)
Unsure if these are individual artefacts, or just repeated attempts at determining the coordinates of the two given above.
⚠ (:gma-point
⚠ (:llVgm NS25338031 :)
link='39.3 Searchlight Platform A, NS 2533 8031' :)⚠ (:gma-point
⚠ (:llVgm NS25198021 :)
link='39.4 Searchlight platform or pillbox B, NS 2519 8021' :)⚠ (:gma-point
⚠ (:llVgm NS2528480241 :)
link='39.5 Searchlight platforms C, NS 25284 80241' :)⚠ (:gma-point
⚠ (:llVgm NS2525780227 :)
link='39.5 Searchlight platforms D, NS 25257 80227' :)
⚠ (:gma-map view=sat :)
⚠ [[!World War II]]
⚠ [[!Pillbox]]
⚠ [[!Searchlight Platform]]
⚠ (:WPCategoriesList:)
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