Archaeology Notes

Event ID 868382

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU37NE 8001 c. 398 797

N60 30 W1 16.5

NLO: Little Roe [name: HU 404 795]

Little Holm [name: HU 404 862]

Yell Sound [name centred HU 40 89]

Sullom Voe [name centred HU 37 73].

See also HU37NE 8002.

Formerly entered as HU38NE 8001 at cited location HU 3972 8735 [N60 30 W1 16.5], and also as HU48NW 8001 at cited location HU c. 404 862 [N60 33.5 W1 15.8].

(Location cited as N60 30 W1 16.5 and also as HU 400 800). The wreck of a Second World War boom defence vessel lies [apparently in shallow water] 160m SW of Little Roe Lighthouse. Three portions are recognised: doors, engine room and bows.

G Ridley 1992.

Quality of fix = PA

Horizontal Datum = OGB

Surveying Details

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31 January 1984. A quantity of unexploded ordnance has been located in the vicinity of the Little Roe light. Anchoring and fishing has been prohibited within 500 metres of the light.

Report by Shetland Islands Council, taken from the Notice to Mariners 6/82.

1983. The unexploded ordnance has been cleared by Royal Navy bomb disposal team. Divers located an old wreck whilst doing so.

Report by Captain Nicholson, 8 December 1983.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

This wreck is presumably to be equated with that entered as HU37NE 8002.

The location of Little Roe light remains unclear. The island of Little Roe is centred at HU 403 797: no lighthouse or beacon is noted on the current edition of the OS (GIS) AIB.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 September 2007.

The site record HU48NW 8001 ('Little Holm') is a duplicate entry for HU37NE 8001. [Accepted and cancelled].

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 June 2009 (Information from Mr R Forbes, Scientific Underwater Logistics And Diving, Old Academy, Back Road, Stromness, Orkney KW16 3AW).

Little Roe lighthouse (HU37NE 37) is at HU c. 3984 7972.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 June 2009.