Archaeology Notes

Event ID 831325

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/831325

NS28NE 21.04 centred 25822 85778

A Base camp for prisoners-of-war noted in R J C Thomas, Project Report (Twentieth Century Military Recording Project, Prisoner-of-War Camps [1939-1948]), National Monuments Records Centre, English Heritage, July 2003 has been identified from a vertical air photographs (106G/Scot/UK 85, 4147-4149, flown 10 May 1946) immediately to the E of the old A 814 road in the grounds of the now demolished Ardgare House.

A large camp of at least 60 huts, mainly of the Nissen type situated within a semi-rectangular enclosure to the S of the walled garden (NS28NE 21.03) and between the railway and the road.

The site of the camp has been destroyed by postwar housing and the construction of the modernised A 814 road.

The name Stukenduff has passed to the Riding School on the N side of the railway.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), May 2005