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

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5892 >> RCHME, 1995, Town Moor, Newcastle upon Tyne, Archaeological Survey Report, p 41