Scanned image of view of World War I trench and magazine at Hoxa Head, South Ronaldsay.
SC 673977
Description Scanned image of view of World War I trench and magazine at Hoxa Head, South Ronaldsay.
Date 26/5/1996
Catalogue Number SC 673977
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of C 73035 CN
Scope and Content 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 shows the entrance front of one of the magazines which was built to store the shells and cartridges for a pair of World War I four-inch guns. It is a semi-subterranean structure which stands at the end of a part rock-cut, part masonry-built access trench from one of the guns. A corresponding trench leads from a second gun to a door at the opposite end of this thick-walled building. Characteristic of World War I workmanship the concrete has a smooth top coat finish and the door and window surrounds are neatly chamfered. 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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