Archaeology Notes

Event ID 668891

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/668891

HY20NW 27.02 centred 24879 07956

A two gun-emplacement battery situated at the W end of Stromness Golf course. The battery is set behind a contemporary fence and consists of the gun-emaplacements, Naval Battery observation post (HY 24858 08036), underground magazines and a wodden hutted accommodation camp (HY20NW 27.04). The searchlights are located o the shore line to the W.

Armed with two Mk VII/II 6-inch guns, the battery is recorded in Public Record Office documents (WO/192/273, dated 8 May 1944) and were removed in December 1956.

The battery is visible on RAF vertical air photographs (CPE/Scot/UK185, 2440-2441, 9 October 1946) and on more recent aerial photography (OS 64.54, 033-034, flown 5 June 1964).

Visited by RCAHMS (DE, GS, August 2000)