Detail of entrance door to magazine
C 73019 CN
Description Detail of entrance door to magazine
Date 26/5/1996
Catalogue Number C 73019 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 673965
Scope and Content Door, World War I magazine, Hoxa Battery, Hoxa Head, South Ronaldsay, Orkney Islands In both World Wars coast batteries were built to protect the channels into Scapa Flow and Kirkwall Bay, where there was an important contraband control. The greatest concentrations of firepower were at the main north-western and southern entrances to the Flow, the latter covered by the coast batteries on Stanger Head on Flotta and here on Hoxa Head on South Ronaldsay. This is a detail of the heavy, riveted steel door at the entrance to one of the surviving World War I magazines where shells and fuses were also stored in World War II. The door is set within a smooth-finished concrete surround with chamfered margins, characteristic of World War I workmanship. At the heart of the Orkney archipelago, Scapa Flow was the main fleet anchorage for the Royal Navy during both World Wars. Its vital importance led to the creation of one of the most concentrated defence networks in Britain. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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