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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 798656
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/798656
ND16SW 53 1474 6039 and 1495 6055
Two groups of tanks situated both E and W of the railway at Hoy Station which were built to provide aircraft fuel for Castletown, Wick and Skitten airfields. The pump room was underground on the W side of the railway and the four fuel tanks were on the E side. All the tanks on the E side have been removed. The pump room under a earth mound that is now grass grown. The site was also rail connected.
J Guy 2000; NMRS MS 810/10, Vol.1, 40