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Calback Coast Battery, Gun Emplacements
Gun Emplacement(S) (Second World War)
Site Name Calback Coast Battery, Gun Emplacements
Classification Gun Emplacement(S) (Second World War)
Alternative Name(s) Sullom Voe; The Kames; Sullom Voe Terminal
Canmore ID 145528
Site Number HU37NE 10.03
NGR HU 38568 76514
NGR Description HU 38568 76514 and HU 38604 76543
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/145528
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Delting
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU37NE 10.03 38568 76514 and 38604 76543
Two shuttered concrete with steel reinforced roof beams gun-emplacements are situated in rough ground about 71m and 77m NW respectively of the Battery Observation Post (HU37NE 10.04). One emplacement is faces W the other NW. The emplacement to the SW (HU 38568 76514) measures about 9.4m by 9.4m overall and that at ND 38604 76543 is about 9m by 8.3m overall. Though both gun-emplacement are to a basically similar design, there are some detail differnces between the two, notably the position of the entrance to the corridors leading to the BOP.
Both emplacements retain the centrally positioned gun holdfast with nineteen fixing bolts still in situ set on a small octagonal concrete base, however, that to the SW retains two ready-use ammunition lockers on the back wall of the gun platform. A low, angled concrete wall surrounds the gun platform on the seaward side and in both emplacements it would appear that the central part of the canopy has been removed as three fixing studs are visible on the main supporting beam.
To the rear of the emplacements are crew rooms and a short distance along the corridor is a second chamber, possibly for ammunition or stores.
Visited by RCAHMS (DE, AL), 7 October 1998.
