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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 670928
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/670928
ND49SW 27.06 40465 92528, 40379 92535 and 40243 92908
Three concrete searchlight emplacements are situated on the cliff top around Hoxa Head. Two are located 61m SW and 29m SE of the World War II gun-battery (ND49SW 27.04) and the third is 67m NW of the double World War I battery (ND49SW 27.01).
The two emplacements near the World War II battery are built on to bedrock in shuttered concrete. They are rectangular in plan with a circular canopy and angular lower section. The roofs have stones cemented to them to provide camouflage. The interiors retain some of the rusted metal tracking (lower and upper), for the shutters that would have once allowed the narrowing of the light beam.
The third searchlight emplacement to the N is of a different design, having a rectangular roof in plan and is cut into the slope. The building was entered on the date of visit.
Visited by RCAHMS (DE, GS, SW), May 1996
