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Lerwick, The Lerwick Observatory
Slit Trench (Second World War)
Site Name Lerwick, The Lerwick Observatory
Classification Slit Trench (Second World War)
Canmore ID 355315
Site Number HU43NE 43
NGR HU 45104 39778
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/355315
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Lerwick
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
Field Visit (15 May 2017 - 28 July 2017)
Scotland’s Urban Past, a community engagement project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and led by Historic Environment Scotland worked with HES experts, local community group Archaeology Shetland to survey and record Second World War defences in and around the town of Lerwick, Shetland. Training provided to the group covered, field survey and photography, plane table survey, Urban Detectives and QGIS.
Information from HES 05 December 2017
