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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 738806
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/738806
HU53NW 11.00 51638 35742
HU53NW 11.01 HU 51516 35953 Military Camp
HU 5164 3574. This coast battery is situated on the S tip of Bard Head. Established in the First World War as a heavy artillary unit with one 6-inch gun, it formed part of the coast defences of Lerwick. The site still has its gun in situ with the gallows for installing guns and landing stores nearby.
J Guy 1995; NMRS, MS/810/4, 114-117
Gun-emplacement at HU 51638 35742, magazine HU 51643 35771 and gallow at c.HU 5158 3579.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), March 2006
