Archaeology Notes

Event ID 648004

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT74SE 31.00 centred 76159 42757

For associated radar site at Benbecula Airport see NF75NE 4.03

NF74SE 31.01 centred NF 75157 43264, NF 75236 42971 and NF 75074 43561 Military installations

NF74SE 31.02 centred NF 75734 42591 Radio masts

South Uist guided missile, A.S.A.T Rangehead site. Group of buildings constructed between early 1970s and 1980s. The site is linked to the Radar tracking station on St Kilda (NF19NW 63).

The buildings and the guided missile firing range are visible on vertical air photographs (All Scotland Survey, 04 87 161-163, flown 22 May 1987).

Information from RCAHMS (DE), August 2005