Archaeology Notes

Event ID 860376

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY20NW 25.01 2379 0408

The accommodation camp for Skerry Battery (HY20NW 25.00) has been identified from vertical air photographs taken in 1946 (CPE/Scot/UK 185, frames 2433-2434, flown 9 October 1946). The camp is situated on the W side of the road immediately N of Burra House (HY20SW 12).

The camp conisted of at least five Nissen huts set at right angles to the road.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), October 2008.