Rerwick Head Battery, Ac Exchange
Building (20th Century)
Site Name Rerwick Head Battery, Ac Exchange
Classification Building (20th Century)
Canmore ID 269755
Site Number HY51SW 10.08
NGR HY 54158 11693
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/269755
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish St Andrews And Deerness
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY51SW 10.08 54158 11693
A shuttered concrete building is situated about 144m SSE of the Battery Observation Post (HY51SW 10.02) overlooking the shoreline.
The building measures about 4.6 by 4m NW to SE and is about 2.5m in height. It is set into a concrete well measuring about 6.6m by 5.8m NW to SE. There two observation windows, at the W and E corners, and the entrance is through the SW elevation. The concrete roof has the remains of a cast iron chimney sticking through it.
Though this building is annotated as 'A.C. Exchange' on the Public Record Office Gun Record Book layout plan (WO 192/264), it was orginally a mine watch post to watch for enemy aircraft dropping mines in the
channel and plotting their location. It was altered to an exchange at a date later in the war.
Visited by RCAHMS (DE), August 1999
