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Anti Aircraft Battery (20th Century)

Site Name Car Ness

Classification Anti Aircraft Battery (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) M11; Carness

Canmore ID 105635

Site Number HY41SE 54

NGR HY 4660 1438

NGR Description c. HY 4660 1438

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Oblique aerial view.
Oblique aerial view.Oblique aerial view of Orkney, Car Ness, Car Ness and Wellington Batteries, from SE. Visible are the gun-emplacements, battery observation towers, searchlight platforms and Nissen huts for both batteries. The site of a heavy anti-aircraft battery is just discernable to the S.Oblique aerial view of Orkney, Car Ness, Car Ness and Wellington Batteries, from NE. Visible are the gun-emplacements, battery observation towers, searchlight platforms and Nissen huts for both batteries. The site of a heavy anti-aircraft battery is just discernable to the S.Oblique aerial view of Orkney, Car Ness, Car Ness and Wellington Batteries, from N. Visible are the gun-emplacements, battery observation towers, searchlight platforms and Nissen huts for both batteries. The site of a heavy anti-aircraft battery is just discernable to the S.

Administrative Areas

  • Council Orkney Islands
  • Parish Kirkwall And St Ola
  • Former Region Orkney Islands Area
  • Former District Orkney
  • Former County Orkney

Archaeology Notes

HY41SE 54 c.4660 1438

Nothing could be seen in a cultivated field to the SW of Wellington Battery (HY41SE 52.00) of the four gun emplacements and command centre for heavy anti-aircraft battery. RCAHMS aerial photographs taken in 1997 (RCAHMSAP 1997) show the cropmark of the emplacements and command position.

The battery was designated M11 by the War Office and given a site name of Hatston and Grimsetter (both airfield names). Public Record Office documents show that the battery was armed in 1942 with one 3.7-inch static gun and provided with a mobile Gl Mk II radar set and GL-mat and manning was by 58 Brigade (WO 166/7270).

The remains of the battery can be seen in vertical air photographs ttaken in 1948 (RAF LEU/UK 2, 7099-7100, flown 1948), which show at this date the command centre and two emplacements still upstanding.

No trace could be found in a field to the Se, of the radar ramp, platform or Gl-mat.

Visited by RCAHMS (DE, GS), August 1999

A heavy anti-aircraft battery is visible on vertical air photographs (RAF LEU/UK 2, 7099-7100, flown 1948) immediately to the S of the coast battery (HY41SE 52) on Car Ness point. The battery had at one point been a 'mobile', but the evidence from the air photograph would suggest a permanent position. Examination of the photographs reveals that at least two of the four permanent gun-emplacements survive along with the command position. Some 100m to the SE was the GL-mat (gun-laying radar mat) for gun direction.

Information from RCAHMS (DE) September 1999.

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