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Hoy, Pegal Hill
Gun Emplacement (20th Century)(Possible), Hut (20th Century)
Site Name Hoy, Pegal Hill
Classification Gun Emplacement (20th Century)(Possible), Hut (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Lh 2
Canmore ID 269810
Site Number ND29NE 13
NGR ND 2977 9824
NGR Description c.ND 2977 9824
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/269810
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Walls And Flotta
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
ND29NE 13 c.2977 9824
A light anti-aircraft gun emplacement has been identified from RAF vertical air photographs (LEU/UK 4, 7031-7032, flown 17 April 1948), on the E-facing slope of Pegal Hill, on the E side of the B9047 road opposite the site of a barrage balloon mooring position (ND29NE 4).
Visible are what may be one large gun-emplacement with two other earth banked circular enclosures on either side of a track leading down the slope. At least two hut bases are visible on the photographs and there are two Nissen huts on the opposite side of the road.
The gun-emplacement is noted in Public Record Office documents (WO 166/7270) as LH 2 as being armed (November 1942), with one 40mm Mk I Bofors gun and manned by 59 Regiment.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), January 2005
