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Coastal Battery. Two concrete emplacements with holdfasts for 4-inch guns in open mounts. To the rear are rock-cut horseshoe shaped trenches leading to the semi-underground magazine. Within one magazine some WWII graffiti survives scratched on to the walls.
(Source: NMR 1993)
Document records give the armament of Hoxa as: 2 x 6in guns and 2 x coast artillery search lights. On 7 April 1941 was manned by 208 Bty of 533 Reg Coast Artillery. By 10 November 1943 the battery was under care and maintenance. See references.
(Source: Report 1997/07)


      

        Official Name
        Hoxa Battery
      

      

        Type of site
        COAST BATTERY
      

      

        Location
        Situated some 30m inland from the cliff-edge and 300m NW of the later WWII battery, Hoxa Head.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 South Ronaldsay, Orkney Islands, Scotland

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            ND 4034 9281
            

            ND 4030 9287
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW1

      

      

        Condition
        Extant but condition unknown

      

      

        Materials
        
            Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Guy, John A.  (Defence of Britain Project)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Scapa Flow fixed defences - Coast Artillery batteries 

        		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0015484

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            Scheduled Monument (ref: ND49SW27.1)
        
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, During 1997/05 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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