Site Name: Dumbuck
Alternative Name(s):
Monument Type: Oil Storage Tanks
Council: West Dunbartonshire
Parish: Old Kilpatrick
Map Sheet: NS47SW
Grid Reference: 241500, 674300
Canmore Number: 128420
Non-Statutory Register Code:
WoSASPIN 21891
Noted whilst under construction on a Luftwaffe aerial photograph (dated 1939) as a possible mine storage depot, this site is more probably a heavy fuel-oil storage depot. Visible on RAF aerial photographs (106G/UK 92: 3037-3038, 15 May 1946) and Fairey Survey aerial photographs (7915: 220-221, 19 June 1979), the facility has no rail connection or jetty for unloading ordnance. It is comprised of eleven square storage tanks, heavily revetted by earth, within an enclosing earthen bund. There is a wide lay-by for tanker vehicles within the entrance.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM) 26 March 1998
Photographed by Luftwaffe before 2/10/1939, at 1:15,200. Photograph reproduced in RCAHMS Catalogue 1999 (copy in SMR archive).
Entered WoSAS (CF) 11/01/2000
RCAHMS , Scotland from the Air: Catalogue of the Luftwaffe Photographs in the National Monuments Record of Scotland(1999)