World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Date 24 September 2013
Event ID 964625
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/964625
The battery at Carness was the only one on the northern side of Mainland, covering an anti-submarine boom laid across the narrow channel known as the String, between Carness and Helliar Holm, off Shapinsay. The battery is supposed to have been armed with two 4-inch Quick Firing guns, intended to engage faster, smaller enemy vessels. Stell (2010) suggests that the character of some of the remains may suggest the presence of a rare First World War anti-aircraft emplacement.
The site was used for a much larger battery in the Second World War.
Information from HS/RCAHMS World War One Audit Project (GJB) 24 September 2013.
