Sumburgh Airfield, Scholland
Air Raid Shelter(S) (Second World War), Military Camp (Second World War), Nissen Hut(S) (Second World War)
Site Name Sumburgh Airfield, Scholland
Classification Air Raid Shelter(S) (Second World War), Military Camp (Second World War), Nissen Hut(S) (Second World War)
Canmore ID 201663
Site Number HU31SE 34.05
NGR HU 3875 1125
NGR Description Centred HU 3875 1125
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/201663
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Dunrossness
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU31SE 34.05 centred 3875 1125
Recorded by Defence of Britain Project.
A Purdy, August 1996
The northern part of a very large accommodation camp situated in area annotated as 'Goat' on the current OS 1:2500 scale digital map is visible on vertical air photogrpahs (106G/Scot/UK 97, 3026-3027, flown 18 May 1946).
The series taken in 1989 (All Scotland Survey [Jasair], 27 89 004-005, flown 4-6 July 1989), the whole camp had been demolished though the hut bases are still visible. The current OS 1:2500 scale digital maps still depicts the trackways between the huts and also several of the air-raid shelters.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), December 2005.
