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Point Of Scattland
Coastal Battery (Second World War)
Site Name Point Of Scattland
Classification Coastal Battery (Second World War)
Alternative Name(s) Lerwick Defences; Lerwick North; Point Of Scotland; South Bight Of Greenhead
Canmore ID 114634
Site Number HU44SE 78
NGR HU 4680 4395
NGR Description Centred HU 4680 4395
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Lerwick
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU44SE 78 Centred 4680 4395
HU 4695 4360A Second World War Coast Battery is situated on the Point of Scattland. The battery consisted of two 12 pounder guns which were installed in 1942. Reduced to Care and Maintainance in January 1945, little now survives in an area of roadways to the N of a depot, apart from a few hut bases.
J Guy 1995; NMRS MS 810/4, 21-3 PRO 192 270
The location of the coast battery has been identified from vertical air photographs (106G/Scot/UK 97, 3053-3053, flown 18 May 1946), about 450m NW of Point of Scattland. The site now lies buried below a electricity sub-station within an area redeveloped for the oil industry.
Visible on the air photographs are the two gun-emplacements with the camouflaged crew shelter between , two engine rooms and two searchlight emplacements close to the shore.
The accommodation camp lay to the N beside a small burn (c. HU 4675 4410).
A plan held in the Public Record Office (PRO) shows that the battery consisted of two gun-emplacement (Nos. 1 and 2 guns), magazines, stores, two engine rooms (A and B), crew shelter, two barrack rooms and two searchlight emplacements, [nos.1 and 2], (PRO WO 192 270).
Information from RCAHMS (DE), February 2006
