Standing Building Recording

Date August 2017 - July 2018

Event ID 1088799

Category Recording

Type Standing Building Recording

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1088799

NT 50002 09373 (centred on) Due to its extraordinary level

of preservation Stobs Camp, four miles S of Hawick, is an

internationally important WW1 site. It was an arena for

Scotland’s preparation for war and the subsequent handling

of WW1 civilian internees and military prisoners. Although

Stobs’ military connections continued up until the early

1960s, the focus of the Stobs Camp Project is the period prior

to, and during, WW1. It aims to better understand Stobs

and the role it played, to value, share and commemorate

Stobs and the people connected to it and to protect the

camp for future generations. As part of work to ensure

the physical remains are recorded the project conducted a

series of building assessments using a framework provided

by the Home Front Legacy project, a UK-wide venture that

ran throughout the First World War centenary to encourage

communities to record home front sites. Below is a summary

of these assessments undertaken August–October 2017 and

March, May and July 2018. All are located at Stobs Camp

unless specified.

NT 33247 20575 Nissen Hut, Wester Deloraine – The

remains of a corrugated Nissen hut re-erected at Wester

Deloraine. Rectangular in plan with longitudinal sides facing E

and W. Access door at S with blocked door at N end. W-facing

wall 13.1m and S-facing wall 7.45m. Features include four

dormer-style windows, two W-facing, one E-facing with the

remains of a second dormer on the E side. Two windows

contain wired glass on the N-facing side and two S-facing.

A brief internal inspection revealed later partitioning to keep

livestock. Corrugated roof. Roof supported by half-circles

forming seven internal sections. Each section measures

1.85m in width.

Archive: Scottish Borders Council and NRHE (intended)

Funder: Heritage Lottery Fund (Scotland), Historic Environment

Scotland, Borders LEADER, Fallago Environment Fund and BCCF

Environmental

Andrew Jepson and Dianne Swift – Archaeology Scotland

(Source: DES, Volume 19)