Archaeology Notes

Event ID 760284

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY30SE 8001 3618 0430

N58 55.3 W3 6.5

NLO: Stromness [name: HY 253 090]

Scapa Flow [name centred HY 36 00]

Toy Ness [name: HY 354 042].

Formerly entered as HY30SE 8870.

'Salvor's dumping ground; 5.9" gun turret & barbette, wreckage'.

G Ridley 1992.

Quality of fix = PA

Evidence = Divers Report

Horizontal Datum = OGB

General water depth = 10

Surveying Details

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1 November 1982. An obstruction is repotted at 58 55 18N, 003 06 30W. The area is apparently used as a dumping ground by salvors. A complete gun - turret and barbette - is lying on its side. Nearby a small metal compartment and a mast, a winch, and other pieces of scrap metal, lie on sloping seabed in a general depth of 10 metres.

Report by B Winfield, 25 October 1982.

Hydrographic Office 1995.