Atlantic Wall on Sheriffmuir

WW2 target practice

Located in the Black Hills around Sheriffmuir is a length of concrete wall built during WW2. We spotted one long section and a smaller bit. There are trodden paths up to it from a couple of lay-bys bu...

Why are the defences facing west?

Beside the minor road along the western slope of Sherriffmuir, from Dunblane to Greenloaning, running high above and parallel to the busy A9 dual carriageway, there are a few dilapidated concrete stru...

Little bit of history

Really there is not too much there but concrete blocks, walls and ‘bunkers’ in the middle of a Scottish field, but knowing it was used to train allied soldiers to assault fortified areas, gives it som...

Interesting artefact

Stand on this wall and remember what our forebears had to go through. These were the practice walls for the Normandy landings in the second world war. The moor was used in both the first and second wo...

Target Practice!

15 minutes north east of Dunblane or off the A9 you'll find the remains of a mock up of Hitler's Atlantic Wall. Used for target practice by British forces during WWII these ruined concrete structures ...