Howdon, building platforms

HER Number:
11764

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Howdon, building platforms

Place:
Howdon

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Monument

Site Type: Broad:
Platform

Site Type: Specific:
Building Platform

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
A line of five building platforms of probable modern date were mapped from air photographs of 1946. The buildings may have been associated with the nearby anti aircraft battery (HER 5501). The platforms each measure 12m x 6m and are aligned north-south against a field boundary.

Easting:
3224

Northing:
6764

Grid Reference:
NZ32246764

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1405697; Aerial Photograph RAF 3G/TUD/UK/125 5096 04-APR-1946