Eilean Nan Caorach
Target (20th Century)
Site Name Eilean Nan Caorach
Classification Target (20th Century)
Canmore ID 296215
Site Number NC37SE 15
NGR NC 35119 71518
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/296215
- Council Highland
- Parish Durness
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
Field Visit (2008)
NC37SE 15 35119 71518
One of the principal target areas within the naval bombing and gunnery range at Cape Wrath (now part of the Cape Wrath Training Centre) was centred on Eilean nan Caorach, a limestone promontory on which there are the remains of a fort (NC37SE 1). At least eight vehicles (CWTC08 376–83), mostly cars but at least one lorry, have been placed within the fort and two more (CWTC08 384-5) are situated a short distance to the SE. All of the vehicles are burnt out mangled wrecks and fragments of them litter the surrounding area.
(CWTC08 376–85)
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, JH) 10 August 2008.
