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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 661384
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/661384
HY40NE 41.00 centred 4545 0975 and 4555 0995
HY40NE 41.01 centred HY 4540 0995 and HY 4520 0990 Military camps
The main WW II communications station for Orkney was situated to the N and S of the junction between the Inganess Road and the A960. There are few remains at this location as much of the site has been built over by a postwar Creamery and housing. A few mast bases were extant in 1988 (All Scotland Survey 06 87 319-320, flown 27 June 1987) on the SE side of what is now Easdale Loan, but nothing could be seen in a field on the date of visit nor in the field to the N of Inganess Road.
This communications station was superseded by a new one built during 1941 to the SE (see HY40NE 28.00).
The whole complex is visible on WW II RAF vertical air photographs (NLA 16, 612-613, flown 22 June 1941), which shows the two areas of masts and the large groups of huts comprising the technical and accommodation camps.
Visited by RCAHMS (DE, GS), August 1999, 2000
