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Remains of an airfield decoy site with generating plant and air-raid shelter. The air-raid shelter was built to house the military during World War II, when Harestone Moss was used for a decoy airfield for Dyce. The end of the shelter housed a generator, which provided power to light the dummy airstrip. The air-raid shelter is situated 200m north of Easter Craigie farmsteading and has been sunk into a gentle south-facing slope. The shelter comprises three compartments on an east to west axis, the central one entered from the south by a flight of eleven concrete steps. The central compartment, which is constructed of shuttered concrete, with vertical walls and a flat roof, is little more than an ante-chamber, providing access to the east and west chambers. It measures 2.8m in length and 2.2m in height, and the doors (now missing) to the flanking compartments hung on iron frames. The east compartment measures 2.8m from north to south by 2m and 1.85m in height. The roof is of corrugated iron sheeting externally reinforced with concrete, and arches over from north to south just above ground level. The east wall is also of concrete-backed corrugated iron and this is breached in two places by circular apertures measuring about 0.35m in diameter. Situated against the foot of the east wall there are two concrete plinths, one supporting what appears to be a concrete sink or trough, and the second for the generator. The west compartment measures 5.5m from east to west by 2.8m and 1.85m in height and is a longer version of the east chamber. At the west end of the chamber there is a roof aperture covered by the remains of an iron hatch.
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