Publication Account
Date 1999
Event ID 1019701
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019701
Netherbutton was still under construction at the outbreak of war in September 1939. Indeed, according to some sources, this was the site which the Royal oak was evidently defending against air attack when she was sunk. The station incorporated the usual standard features: an RX or receiver block, surrounded by four wooden masts, about 240 feet high, on concrete bases (which still survive), and a TX or transmitter block with a line of much taller steel masts, each about 350 feet high, two being later used by teh BBC but removed in 1986. The power station at Deepdale remains intact, sme distance to the north, while the remote buried reserve station is about a quarter of a mile away to the east. A rare oblique aerial view of the site, taken by the RAF in 1942, shows all the masts in the position, and, among other things, the concrete platforms for what we have established as rocket or Z-battery defences.
Information from ‘RCAHMS Excursion guide 1999: Commissioners' field excursion, Orkney, 8-10 September 1999'.
