Nuns Moor Park, Nissen hut platforms
Nuns Moor Park, Nissen hut platforms
HER Number
5892
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Nuns Moor Park, Nissen hut platforms
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26NW
Class
Defence
Site Type: Broad
Military Building
Site Type: Specific
Nissen Hut
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Second World War 1939 to 1945
Form of Evidence
Cropmark
Description
At the southern edge of the POW camp (HER 5891) are four rectangular earthwork features, consisting of a series of conjoined ditches that form rectangles, measuring 16 metres x 10 metres up to 0.30 metres deep. The upcast of the ditch was used to create four raised platforms. The earthworks can be seen on the 1946 aerial photograph in progress of construction, five in one row and four in another parallel row. They may have been another type of trench, or the footings for temporary buildings such as Nissen huts.
Easting
423270
Northing
565050
Grid Reference
NZ423270565050
Sources
<< HER 5892 >> RCHME, 1995, Town Moor, Newcastle upon Tyne, Archaeological Survey Report, p 41