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External Reference
Date 1995
Event ID 935328
Category Documentary Reference
Type External Reference
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/935328
A First World War Coast Battery comprising two gun-emplacements with their 6-inch guns still extant. There is also a sunken magazine for each gun and one observation post. The two 6-inch guns were removed from HMS Gibralter [Gibraltar]. Swarbacks Minn was used as an overflow for Scapa Flow with ships using Busta Voe.
After the First World War the wooden barrack hut was removed and became the first school in Aith.
J Guy 1995; NMRS MS 810/4, 11-18, 27-8.
