Archaeology Notes
Event ID 742821
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/742821
HY20NW 27.00 24859 07977 and 24886 07946
See also HY20NE 77
HY20NW 27.01 HY 24958 07739 Coast battery, 5.5-inch (WW I)
HY20NW 27.02 HY 24879 07956 Coast battery 6-inch (WW II)
HY20NW 27.03 HY 24866 07926 Coast Battery 6-inch (WW I)
HY20NW 27.04 Centred HY 24855 08067 Military camp (WW II)
A series of World War One and Two gun emplacements and magazines with a camp site.
J Guy 1993; NMRS MS 810/2; WO/192/273.
Both the 5.5-inch World War I and World War II batteries are visible on RAF vertical air photographs (CPE/Scot/UK185, 2439-2441, flown 9 October 2004) in an area on the W side of Stromness Golf course. The World War I 6-inch battery is visible on more recent aerial photography (OS 64.54, 033-034, flown 5 June 1964). The searchlights to the S on the shore are also visible on the aerial photographs and are depicted on the OS 1:10000 scale map.
Visited by RCAHMS (DE, GS, August 2000)
Scheduled as Ness Battery, coast defence battery, Stromness.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 25 October 2001.