Usworth, Picket Hamilton Fort

HER Number:
5410

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Usworth, Picket Hamilton Fort

Place:
Usworth

Map Sheet:
NZ35NW

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Blockhouse

Site Type: Specific:
Picket Hamilton Fort

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Picket Hamilton Fort - sunken circular concrete pillbox used on WW2 airfields (site is adjacent to Usworth RAF base HER 1824). They remained flush with the surface to permit the free movement of aircraft, but if attack threatened could be raised and manned to give covering fire.

Easting:
340

Northing:
588

Grid Reference:
NZ340588

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5410 >> A. Rudd, of Wartime Defences in Tyne and Wear - typed list; North Pennines Archaeology, 2009, Land at Nissan, Sunderland - Archaeological Assessment