Aberdeenshire HER - NO88NE0129 - COWIE LINE

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Primary ReferenceNO88NE0129
NameCOWIE LINE
NRHE Card No.NO88NE88
NRHE Numlink 273216
HES SM No. NULL
HES LB No. NULL
Site Form Earthwork
Site Condition Incomplete
Details Remains of a World War II anti-tank barrier, located within the designed landscape Ury House Estate (NO88NE0104). From the position of the previous artificial section of barrier to this section is naturally high river bank, with steel picket posts implying that this was defended by wire. The artificial barrier resumes at NO 8586 8755 (see NO88NE0087) with anti-tank cubes and a pillbox. The barrier is the usual vertical faced bank, with evidence of a wire obstacle and a modern barbed wire fence following its line. At NO 8595 8757 a modern settling tank has been inserted into the barrier. Also at this point the barrier acquires an intervening ditch and a second bank, 1.8m high, both banks with evidence of being further protected by wire. The barrier stops either side of the (modern replacing an earlier bridge) quarry bridge and ends where the natural bank becomes a cliff at NO 8628 8736.
Last Update21/07/2022
Updated Byjnicholson
CompilerAF
Date of Compilation12/08/2010

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National Grid Reference: NO 8609 8750



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Monument Type 1Monument Type 2Monument Type 3OrderProbability
DEFENCESANTI-TANKREMAINS OFA100
EARTHWORKSWORLD WAR IIREMAINS OFB100
REVETMENTSWORLD WAR IIREMAINS OFC100