Archaeology Notes

Event ID 643073

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS46SE 90 centred 4540 6415

Formerly entered as NS46NE 44 (relocated from air photograph evidence).

This heavy anti-aircraft battery has been completely destroyed by the extension of the engineering works. The battery consisted of four emplacements with the GL mat (radar horizon hexagon) to the NW. The accommodation camp was immediately N of the A761 public road.

Information from RCAHMS (DE) July 1997

The site of this battery has now been built over by a Engineering Works. The battery was armed with four 3.7-inch guns.

J Guy 2001; NMRS MS 810/11, Part 3, 192-3

The site of this heavy anti-aircraft battery subsequently was used to build the Rootes Linwood Car factory which closed in the 1980s. The site is now part of the Phoenix Retail Park and probaly lies beneath the ASDA car park.

Information from Defence of Britain Project recording form (J Macdonald), 1996.