Sumburgh, Sumburgh Airport, Scatness
Military Camp (Second World War)
Site Name Sumburgh, Sumburgh Airport, Scatness
Classification Military Camp (Second World War)
Alternative Name(s) Scat Ness
Canmore ID 201648
Site Number HU31SE 98
NGR HU 3910 1021
NGR Description Centred HU 3910 1021
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/201648
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Dunrossness
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU31SE 98 centred 3910 1021
See also Sumburgh Airport (HU31SE 34.00)
Military camp, one Nissen hut extant, recorded by A Purdy.
Information from Defence of Britain Project form, August 1996.
Further recording forms from Mr A Purdy for the Defence of Britain Project have noted many structures, air-raid shelters, Nissen huts, concrete platforms and relating to this camp. The concrete platforms are probably hut bases and one brick buiolt structure at HU 3919 1038 may have housed a electricity generator. Most of the recording forms also contain photographs.
Information from the Defence of Britain Project forms, January 1997
The accommodation camp is visible on vertical air photographs (106G/Scot/UK 97, 3025-3026, 18 May 1946), as a group of at least 29 huts, mainly of the Nissen type.
Traces of the camp are visible on more recent aerial photography (All scotland Survey [Jasair], 27 89 004-005, flown 4-6 July 1989), which shows several concrete hut bases N of of minor road at this location, however, most of the site has been cleared and new construction is in evidence.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), December 2005