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Crockness Martello Tower is a coastal defensive structure located at Long Hope in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. Built during the Napoleonic Wars in the early nineteenth century, it forms part of the network of Martello towers constructed around the British coast to defend against French invasion. The tower exhibits the characteristic circular or polygonal form typical of Martello fortifications, with thick masonry walls designed to withstand artillery bombardment. Like other towers of this class, it would have mounted cannon on its roof and served as a garrison post, though the site's remote position on the Orkney coast made it a particularly isolated outpost of Britain's coastal defence system.
Crockness,Martello Tower,Long Hope is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM2726. View the official record →
Crockness Martello Tower is a coastal defensive structure located at Long Hope in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM2726.
Crockness,Martello Tower,Long Hope is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM2726.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Hackness, Battery and Martello Tower (2.4 km), Greenhill Broch, South Walls, Orkney (2.7 km), Innan Neb, coast batteries, barrage balloon site and camp (2.8 km).
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Crockness,Martello Tower,Long Hope stands on Middle Old Red Sandstone (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Middle Devonian. The rock here is conglomerate, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.