Archaeology Notes

Event ID 721008

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS65NW 74 Centred 6306 5686

A four gun-emplacement battery with an associated accommodation camp is situated immediately S of a minor road running SW-NE from Rogerton farm. The site has now been partially cleared and little remains of the camp. The remains of the battery are visible on air photographs as four gun-emplacements with the command position and the accommodation camp in the adjacent field (visible on Ordnance Survey vertical air photographs OS 65/129, 065-066, flown 1965).

Information from RCAHMS (DE) July 1997

This World War II heavy anti-aircraft battery has been completely cleared away and a steel tower built on the site.

J Guy 2001; NMRS MS 810/11, Part 3, 227-8