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Forth Naturalist and Historian, volume 22 107 THE SHERIFFMUIR ‘ATLANTIC WALL’: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY ON PART OF THE WHITESTONE MILITARY RANGE David C. Cowley, John A. Guy and Diana M. Henderson Few would credit that part of Hitler’s coastal defences could have been built in Scotland, and yet, on moorland north of Stirling, a section of the Atlantic Wall was constructed and survives to this day (NGR NN 8379 0367). This was recorded in the course of mapping an area of Sheriffmuir, on the western flank of the Ochils, by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS). For the most part the archaeological remains in the area were of post-medieval date, comprising braided trackways, enclosed patches of straight cultivation ridges and smaller stock enclosures, but they also included a series of much more recent military training works. These lie on a terrace pockmarked by shell craters at about 295 m OD and were formerly part of the Whitestone Range. The importance of recording 20th century military remains such as these archaeologically is now widely recognised (e.g. Lowry, 1995), in particular because they are often regarded as eyesores and are prone to being ‘tidied-up’ without any form of drawn or written record. Notwithstanding the aesthetics of such sites, they are important historical monuments which are often poorly documented, if at all. Consequently, they are little understood despite dating to such a recent period of our history. This is certainly the case at Whitestone Range, which was in use for about 100 years. Between about 1860 and 1906 Whitestone Range was one of ten Militia and Volunteers ranges and training grounds in the Tillicoultry-Dollar area. In 1907 the annual training camp of The Argyll and Sutherland Brigade of the Volunteers took place on Sheriffmuir and a four lane rifle range at the south end of the area that has been mapped may date to this period. An aerial photograph taken in 1946 (106G/SCOT/120, No. 4250, 20.06.1946) records its layout as patches of lighter vegetation some of which can still be traced on the ground, presumably indicating the locations of supports for a target superstructure. A scatter of small emplacements and slit trenches, dug into the hillside and fronted by an upcast bank, lie across the hillside around the rifle range, but these probably date to WW II. During WW I the 52nd (Lowland) Division trained on the range before going to Gallipoli in 1915. They are likely to have started what is evidently the earliest system of trenches on the terrace. This system may have been extended by Second Line or Reserve Battalion drafts of men destined for France throughout WW I and was subsequently tailored to the WW II training operations. Some of the shell holes on the hillside to the east (Figure 1) may originate in this period, as the 4th Lowland Howitzer Brigade Royal Artillery of 52nd (Lowland) Division were stationed in Stirling and Tillicoultry in 1914/15.
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THE WEATHER OF 1998 S. J. Harrison
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