Dunnet Head, Chain Home Low Radar Station
Also known as
Loch Of Easter Head
Classifications: Radar Station(20th Century)
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Location Details
Local authority: Highland
Parish: Wick
Former region: Highland
Former district: Caithness
Former county: Caithness
Further details
Site number: ND27NW 7
National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE) ID: 139013
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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinburgh, Scotland
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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinburgh, Scotland
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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinburgh, Scotland
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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinburgh, Scotland
View from S of group of mast bases at the N end of the trans…
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinburgh, Scotland
View from S of group of mast bases at the N end of the trans…
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinburgh, Scotland
View from S of group of mast bases at the N end of the trans…
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinburgh, Scotland
View from S of group of mast bases at the N end of the trans…
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinburgh, Scotland
View from E of the engine room with blast wall.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinburgh, Scotland
View from E of the engine room with blast wall.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinburgh, Scotland
View from SW of transmitter receiver block showing S entranc…
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinburgh, Scotland
View from SW of transmitter receiver block showing S entranc…
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinburgh, Scotland
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Category: Descriptive accounts
Event reference: 791238
ND27NW 7 centred 20493 76565
A Chain Home Low radar station on Dunnet Head, situated immediately to the NW of Loch of Easter Head. The radar station was equipped with type 57, a high powered version of the fully mobile type 37 trailer set, which operated on low power; and type 273, which was a naval designation for a surface watching set, with paraboloids mounted inside a perspex 'lighthouse'- type structure.
Information from Mr I Brown, November 1998.
This radar site is situated in an area to the SE of the lighthouse. there are several single storey brick built buildings and many concrete bases.
J Guy 2000; NMRS MS 810/10, Vol.1, 32, Vol.3, 14-15.
A group of brick and concrete buildings that form the Chain Home Low radar station at Dunnet Head. One large transmitter/receiver (Tx/Rx) block with a blast wall at the SE end (ND 20493 76565) , one electricity generating house with blast wall (ND 20435 76584) , mast bases at the NW end of the Tx/Rx block, other upstanding buildings (ND 20452 76530) and several hut bases were all noted.
Visited by RCAHMS (DE,SW), August 2000.
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References
Redfern N I. (1998) Twentieth century fortifications in the United Kingdom, 5 V. V.1 Introduction and sources; V.2 Site gazetteers: Wales; V.3 Site gazetteers: Northern Ireland; V.4 & 5 Site gazetteers: Scotland. York. Page(s): 150 RCAHMS Shelf Number: F.6.9.CBA
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Place: Dunnet Head WWII Chain Home Low Radar Station
Place: Dunnet Head WWII Chain Home Low Radar Station
Place: Dunnet Head WWII Chain Home Low Radar Station