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Hoy, South Burn

Gun Emplacement (20th Century), Searchlight Battery (20th Century)
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Recorded parish
Hoy and Graemsay
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Hoy, South Burn is a gun emplacement in Orkney Islands, Scotland.

From the Historic Environment Scotland record 308237

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  • Rude Health, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Calum McRoberts, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Sandy Gerrard, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.flickr.com
  • Bill Griffiths, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Richard Webb, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • David Medcalf, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Alex Cameron, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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Explorer Tom The Dwarfie Stane looks as though a giant dropped a sandstone block on Hoy and somebody much smaller decided to move…

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