Wallsend, Rising Sun Country Park, bomb craters

Tyne and Wear HER(11673): Wallsend, Rising Sun Country Park, bomb craters - Details

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HER Number:
11673

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Wallsend, Rising Sun Country Park, bomb craters

Place:
Wallsend

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Unassigned

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Bomb Crater

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Levelled Earthwork

Description:
Three bomb craters probably from WW2, seen on aerial photographs immediately after the war. They lie only 660m north-east of a former anti aircraft battery. The craters have been levelled.

Easting:
2997

Northing:
6943

Grid Reference:
NZ29976943

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1429939; Aerial Photograph RAF 106G/UK/1193 4178 27-FEB-1946

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