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Jaw Reservoir Bunker

SE of Cochno Loch, Duntocher, West Dunbartonshire.

Bunker and Decoy Site (Second World War).

Jaw Reservoir lies to the north of Duntocher and Clydebank, and records refer to a World War II concrete bunker, and emplacement, which lie to the southwest. Construction follows the standard pattern for a decoy control bunker, with the protective earth banking still in place around the walls, and the emergency exit hatch, which could also be used as an observation window, still in place on the roof. [SS]

The control shelter (NS 50080 75649) measures 8.7m from E to W by 4.1m transversely over brick walls 0.35m thick and 2.1m high, within a grass-grown earthen blast wall 3.3m thick. The control room on the W, which retains its timber door frame at the entrance, measures 3.35m square and 2.15m high. Six steel rungs attached to the W wall permit egress from the escape hatch and there is a hole in the SE corner of the roof for the chimney pipe of a stove. [Canmore]

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: This was one of 18 decoys that were constructed to protect the industries in the centre of Glasgow and along the banks of the River Clyde from aerial attack by the Luftwaffe during WWII.