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Port Odhar
Machine Gun Post (20th Century)
Site Name Port Odhar
Classification Machine Gun Post (20th Century)
Canmore ID 295899
Site Number NC37SE 9
NGR NC 35696 71068
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/295899
- Council Highland
- Parish Durness
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
Field Visit (2008)
NC37SE 9 35696 71068
This machine-gun emplacement is situated on the raised beach at Port Odhar, immediately N of where an un-named stream flows into the sea. A low wall of boulders has been constructed around the N, E and SE sides of a bomb- or shell-crater, which measures 3m in diameter and 0.6m in depth; a wooden log or old railway sleeper lines the S side.
(CWTC08 61)
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, IP) 10 August 2008.
