Archaeology Notes

Event ID 662240

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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The site of a possible Prisoner-of-war camp is siutated immediately to the E of the cemetery at Friockheim.

The site is visible on postwar vertical air photographs (106G Scot/UK 6, 3244-3245, flown 14 April 1946), and consists of at least four large and two smaller huts. In addition, a small rectangular area with paths can be seen situated centrally between the huts.

A Prisoner-of -war camp is noted at Friockheim as 'Kinnel Camp' in a list in 'Project Report. Twentieth Century Military Recording Project, Prsiner of War Camps (1939-1948)', National Monuments Records Centre, English Heritage Centre, July 2003 (Thomas, R, 2003).

Information from RCAHMS (DE), May 2005