Twartquoy
Searchlight Emplacement (Second World War)
Site Name Twartquoy
Classification Searchlight Emplacement (Second World War)
Alternative Name(s) Hobbister
Canmore ID 297020
Site Number HY30NE 54
NGR HY 3941 0690
NGR Description c.HY 3977 0702
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/297020
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Orphir
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY30NE 54 c.3941 0690
A circular searchlight emplacement has been identified from a WW II RAF vertical air photograph(NLA 16, frame 902, flown 22 June 1941), situated on the S side A964 road about 624m WSW of Twartquoy farmsteading.
Visible on the photographs are a group six Nissen type huts adjacent to the road (HY 39443 06952) and another group of three huts about 25m SW with the emplacement to the S. A few metres NE of the emplacement is another small feature, possibly a small machine gun position or fox hole.
It is not known whether anything survives of this feature.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), November 2008