Archaeology Notes

Event ID 777600

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT17NW 181.09 12369 78659

A large corrugated iron clad shed situated at the E end of the workshop area. The shed has slding doors in the W elevation with surviving standard gauge rail track entering through the W.

Internally the floor is of concrete sections and there is a narrow gauge rail system, one section running between the standard gauge rail. Most of the internal fittings survive intact including an overhead gantry crane. The corrugated iron roof is supported on 'A' frames with steel girder columns.

The official Civil Engineers plan (185/62, 12 October 1959), annotates this building as ' Misc. Stores'

Brick built magazine building about 36m to the N.

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