Whiteleas, aircraft obstructions

HER Number

11693

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Whiteleas, aircraft obstructions

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36SE

Class

Defence

Site Type: Broad

Defence Obstruction

Site Type: Specific

Aircraft Obstruction

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Second World War 1939 to 1945

Form of Evidence

Earthwork

Description

An extensive area of aircraft obstructions from WW2 seen as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs. Linear ditches with associated small dumps of spoil to either side. There are four parallel lines of obstructions, each 136m long and connected by another line at right angles.

Easting

437060

Northing

562440

Grid Reference

NZ437060562440

Sources

English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1403229; Aerial Photograph RAF 58/B/37 5449 17-MAY-1948