Rerwick Head Battery, Accommodation Camp
Air Raid Shelter(S) (20th Century), Military Camp (20th Century)
Site Name Rerwick Head Battery, Accommodation Camp
Classification Air Raid Shelter(S) (20th Century), Military Camp (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Rerwick
Canmore ID 269756
Site Number HY51SW 10.09
NGR HY 53856 11741
NGR Description Centred HY 53856 11741 and c.HY 5384 1180
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish St Andrews And Deerness
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY51SW 10.09 centred 53856 11741 and c.5384 1180
All that could be seen of the accommodation camp for Rerwick Head Battery, which is situated in a field on the S side of a track about 100m N of Rerwick farmsteading are a series of concrete hut bases, two buildings standing above ground and three air-raid shelters.
The two structures which remain above ground are at HY 53856 11741 and HY 53894 11671, one of which is in use as a farm building. The two air-raid shelters cut into the low cliff imemdiately above the High ater mark at c.HY 5384 1180. Both retain a flight of stairs at their SE end. A third earth covered air-raid shelter is situated about 31m NE of the farmhouse.
The camp is shown and annotated on the PRO layout plan (WO 192/264), which notes various stores, mess halls, a hospital, recreation hut and an officers mess. No evidence for the officers mess could be seen nor for the motor transport park on the N side of the track.
The accommodation area is visible on RAF vertical air photographs (106G/Scot/UK 137, 4038-4039, flown 3 July 1946), which shows the complete camp, mainly of Nissen type huts, but with several pitched roofed buildings.
Visited by RCAHMS (DE), Augusat 1999
