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Loth, Radar Station

Hut(S) (20th Century)

Site Name Loth, Radar Station

Classification Hut(S) (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Crackaig Links

Canmore ID 266176

Site Number NC91SE 32.11

NGR NC 9553 0994

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Loth
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Sutherland
  • Former County Sutherland

Archaeology Notes

NC91SE 32.11 9553 0994

N.B. falls on mapsheet NC90NE

Three huts, possibly wooden, are visible on postwar RAF vertical air photographs (CPE/Scot/UK 225, 3428-3430, flown 27 June 1946) on the S end ofCrackaig Links, immediately S of the railway . The huts form part of the wartime development of this radar station.

The huts have been removed since 1946. The concrete hut bases are visible on more recent Fairey Survey vertical air photographs (colour) , (Fairey Surveys Ltd, SDD Coastal strip, 42. 243- 42. 244, flown 28 May 1975).

Information from RCAHMS (DE), September 2004

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