Royal Observer Corps
Record added 26/4/2001
Post Name ESKDALEMUIR
OS Grid Reference NY25049803
County Dumfriesshire
Date opened October 1959
Date closed September 1991
Location On a low mound in a clearing in a densely wooded area up hillside 300 metres north of B723.
Description LOCKED All surface features are intact with some flaking of the paint. The top of the ventilation shaft adjacent to the access shaft is detached and lying on the ground. The hatch is locked internally but can be opened with a Scottish 'T' bar key. Internally the following artefacts remain: Table, shelf, cupboard, two corner shelves at back of the monitoring room, shelves in the toilet, long form rack mounted on the wall, FSM mount, large splint, small splint, various papers and forms, various ROC magazines, dustpan and the light. A lined hole in the ground was used as a buried fuel store, big enough to take a single Jerry can.
Remaining
Surface
Structures		 None
Date of Visit 8.6.2001
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