Scanned image of view of interior of magazine showing entrance doorway and window

Description Scanned image of view of interior of magazine showing entrance doorway and window

Date 26/5/1996

Catalogue Number SC 673967

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 73020

Scope and Content Interior, 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 view of the plastered inner face of the front wall of one of the World War I magazines shows the remains of the steel door and window set within a concrete wall which is almost one metre in thickness. Much of the length of the original access trench can also be seen through these openings. Further inside, the magazine was subdivided into compartments for the separate storage of shells and cartridges. 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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