Promenade, slit trench

HER Number

11712

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Promenade, slit trench

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Defence

Site Type: Broad

Fieldwork

Site Type: Specific

Slit Trench

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Second World War 1939 to 1945

Form of Evidence

Earthwork

Description

A Second World War slit trench seen as earthworks on vertical air photographs from 1949. Part of the coastal defence system.

Easting

436960

Northing

569000

Grid Reference

NZ436960569000

Sources

English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1399187; Aerial Photograph RAF 58/C/3 5121 14-APR-1949