SAW052504 SCOTLAND (1953). Radio mast, Auldhame, under construction. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing south-west. This image has been produced from a print.

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Title [SAW052504] Radio mast, Auldhame, under construction. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing south-west. This image has been produced from a print.
Reference SAW052504
Date 1953
Link Canmore Collection item 1315370
Place name
Parish WHITEKIRK AND TYNINGHAME
District EAST LOTHIAN
Country SCOTLAND
Easting / Northing 360196, 684769
Longitude / Latitude -2.6391750219699, 56.054174353011
National Grid Reference NT602848

Pins

There was an Admiralty Radar Research Station at Gin Head on the West side of Tantallon Castle. Canmore ID 113691/113646/298430 This site is described as an Admiralty Radar Station by the RCAHMS. See Canmore ID 57854

JMB
Monday 17th of June 2013 01:15:53 AM
This set of circles look like a Fleet Air Arm ORS target used for camera gun attacks only. The circles allow the angle of attack and distance to be measured from the resulting film. This type appeared just after WW2 and were still being used in the early 1960s. A 1958 danger area chart shows the area of this site to have the same danger marking as other known ORS targets, some of which were on disused airfields. This type differs slightly from the others in that is not a solid circle. The only question now is when was it laid out and when was it removed and how do these dates fit in with the experimental station? This land was probably used because it was relatively flat and already in Admiralty hands.

Peter Kirk
Saturday 20th of September 2014 05:13:47 PM