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Calback Coast Battery, Battery Observation Post
Observation Post (Second World War)
Site Name Calback Coast Battery, Battery Observation Post
Classification Observation Post (Second World War)
Alternative Name(s) Sullom Voe; The Kames; Sullom Voe Terminal
Canmore ID 145529
Site Number HU37NE 10.04
NGR HU 38636 76477
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/145529
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Delting
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU37NE 10.04 38636 76477
The brick, concrete and steel Battery Observation Post (BOP) is situated in rough ground about 70m SE of the two gun-emplacements. Built of shuttered concrete the building is built in an area that has been hollowed to lower the profile on the horizon. There two windows in the rear elevation and a doorway has been cut in the W-facing elevation to allow access to concrete stairs leading to the entrance to the corridor/tunnel to the gun-emplacements. The tunnel bi-furcates to service the two emplacements at about 48m to the NW.
The BOP is on two levels, the upper floor and viewing platform and a lower with offices and store rooms. The plinth, still with seven bolts in situ, for the range-finding equipment survives as do several marks on the wall as evidence for cables and shelves etc. The steelwork supporting the roof is heavily corroded.
Visited by RCAHMS (DE, AL), 7 October 1998.
