Archaeology Notes

Event ID 644765

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY40SE 26.00 48829 00628

HY40SE 26.01 HY 48763 00594 Statue

For (associated) prisoner-of-war camp, see HY40SE 28.

Visible on air photograph (OS 63/45/146, flown 1963).

(Undated) information in NMRS.

Double Nissen hut with barrel vaulted currugated iron roof, joined end-on is situated on the N shore of Lamb Holm. The W elevation has been given Doric columns supporting a pediment and there is a date panel at the entrance, 'A D MCMXLIV' and a pointed-arched bellcote above. Two pointed arched narrow windows flank the door.

The huts are the only surviving upstanding structure from the Italian Prisoner-of-war camp 60 which stood to the S. The concrete bases for the huts are still visible in the field to the S. The remains of the camp are visible on a RAF vertical air photograph (106G/Scot/UK137, 3014, flown 3 July 1946).

The huts were decorated internally for use as a chapel by one of the prisoners during the war.

The huts were renovated in the 1960s.

Visited by RCAHMS (DE, GS, SW), August 1999