Wallsend, aircraft obstructions

HER Number:
11671

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Wallsend, aircraft obstructions

Place:
Wallsend

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Defence Obstruction

Site Type: Specific:
Aircraft Obstruction

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Levelled Earthwork

Description:
Lines of aircraft obstructions of WW2 mapped from air photographs of wartime period. These lie 100m north-east of an anti aircraft gun battery. The aircraft obstructions are arranged at right angles in a grid formation, in an area 250m x 250m and formed by a ditch with adjacent lines of upcast spoil. The features have since been levelled.

Easting:
2948

Northing:
6941

Grid Reference:
NZ29486941

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1429942; Aerial Photograph RAF 106G/LA/101 1080 17-JAN-1945