Archaeology Notes

Event ID 676647

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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What is possibly a three emplacement light anti-aircraft battery is situated at about 145m O.D., near the end of a track and path leading SW from the underground oil tanks tunnel entrance.

It comprises agroup of three circular turf and stone banked enclosures, one of which may have been the gun-emplacement.

There are hut bases about 120m NE with more another 150m NE from there.

A light anti-aircraft battery is documented in the Public Record Office at approximately this location (WO 166/7270), and it was armed in 1942 with one 40mm Mk I 'Bofors' gun. Designated as LH 4, manning is documented as being by 59 Regiment.

Visited by RCAHMS (DE,GS), August 1999