Standing Building Recording

Date 1 July 2018 - 31 August 2018

Event ID 1048033

Category Recording

Type Standing Building Recording

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1048033

NT 50126 09613 Addyman Archaeology undertook the first detailed formal recording of a WWI Prisoner of War camp hut, a standing structure at Stobs Camp, near Hawick, in the Scottish Borders. These works recorded the structure of the building and identified the main phases evident in its existing fabric. This recording demonstrated that the hut is a modification of the Armstrong Type Plan Hut which was being concurrently used in great numbers for the accommodation of Kitchener’s Army in the first phases of the Great War.

Generally when studied the focus on WWI is organisational or historical rather than archaeological or social contexts. The Stobs Camp hut may be able to address issues of our understanding of the material culture of wartime huts; the historic building recording presented here is a first step in this process, in the definition of the material aspects of temporary hutting structures as designed by Armstrong in the first years of WWI.

Information from K. Karsgaard - Addyman Archaeology

(Source: DES Vol 20)

OASIS ID: addymana1-334245