There are four searchlights installed here and a Twin 6pdr with no overhead cover or director tower. Extreme […]
Gun Battery
4 x 12pdr QF guns were emplaced here. The battery remains fairly complete. The magazines are still extant […]
Clestrain Battery. Coast Artillery Battery: S0015234 WWI
Located on the Golta peninsular on the Island of Flotta, This WWI battery initially housed 3 3pdr’s. This […]
Roan Head Battery (WWI)
2 x 6″ breech loaders Mk7 on CP2 mountings. There was also a 4.7″ gun on a temporary […]
Stanger Head Battery. Coast Artillery Battery: S0015233
2 6″ BL Mk7 on CP2 mountings. This battery was built in 1938 and was still in M.O.D. […]
Ness Battery. Coast Artillery Battery: S0013005
2 x 12pdr Quick Fire in WWII and 2 x 4″ QF in WWI
Carness / Wellington Battery
COAST ARTILLERY BATTERY: S0015230 (Extant) Twin 6pdr QF gun emplacement. A cable railway was laid to facilitate supply […]
Scad Battery, Hoy. COAST ARTILLERY BATTERY: S0015230 (Extant)
2 x 12pdr QF guns emplaced here.
Skerry Battery, Hoy. Coast Artillery Battery: S0015186
1 x Twin 6pdr QF gun house and associated buildings. Currently used as a paintball venue hence some […]
Burray Battery. Coast Artillery Battery: S0015190
2 x 12pdr QF in gunhouses with different architecture.
Wasswick Battery. Coast Artillery Battery: e27158
2 x 4.7″ QF Mk4 on Mk3 mountings to start with and 2 6″ BL Mk7 on P8 […]
Rerwick Battery. Coast Artillery Battery: S0012904
1 x Twin 6pdr Q.F.
Neb Battery, Flotta. Coast Artillery Battery: S0012964
1 x Twin 6pdr QF gun house survives along with the engine room and 1 of the 3 […]
Links Battery. Coast Artillery Battery: S0013006
2 x 12pdr QF one in concrete gun house the other in an open emplacement with a peat […]
Lamb Holm Battery. Coast Artillery Battery: S0012903
2 x 6″ breech loaders Mk7 on CP2 mountings. Much of this battery is built on top of […]
Hoxa Battery. Coast Artillery Battery: S0000115
2 x 12 pdr QF and associated buildings.
Houton Battery. Coast Artillery Battery: S0012968
Much of this WWII battery is built on top of the WWI 3 x 4″ QF battery. some […]
Holm Battery. Coast Artillery Battery: S0012912
1 x Twin 6pdr with no overhead cover. Unigue double split beam searchlight houses.
Graemsay Battery, Graemsay. Coast Artillery Battery: S0015229
1 x Twin 6 pdr QF emplaced here. Search light houses are facing collapse from erosion.
Galtness Battery, Shapinsay. Coast Artillery Battery: S0015274
1 x 12pdr QF installed in a temporary emplacement allowing all round traverse.
Deerness Battery. Coast Artillery Battery: S0012960
2 4.7″ QF Mk4 on Mk3 mountings were emplaced here. The battery was never really finished – there […]
Castle Battery, Shapinsay. Coast Artillery Battery: S0015239
Coast artillery Battery housing 2 x 12pdr QF guns. Remains of paintings in each gun house. Pictures are […]
Cara Battery – Coast Artillery Battery: S0000134
1 x Twin 6pdr QF gun house and associated buildings.
Buchanan Battery, Flotta. Coast Artillery Battery: S0012909
2 x Twin 6pdr QF guns for defence of Hoxa Sound against AMTBs and covering the Boom defence. […]