Arreton Auxiliary Unit Patrol

Thank you for selecting information on this Auxiliary Unit Patrol and Operational Base.

Currently the only info we have on this location or patrol has been provided by the Defence Of Britain Project undertaken by the Council for British Archaeology.

Some of this can be seen below;

Underground hide. 2 x nissen-type huts connected by a full-height corridor. Escape tunnel and shaft to entrance. (Source: Field Visit 1994)

Two underground huts with escape tunnel. [Recorder Carson gives NGR - SZ 537880. He also states that there were 14 x OBs on the Isle of Wight].
(Source: Field Visit 1993)

Two nissen huts buried in earth with a concrete tunnel between them and an entrance at each end. [The record includes copies of photographs taken before the collapse of the bunker, as well as a plan]. (IOW - P/B 23).
(Source: Field Visit 1999/06/30)

Auxiliary Unit Operational Base. In 1994 there were provisional plans by the Robin Hill Country Park to reconstruct the structure at an adjacent location.
(Source: Field Visit 1994)

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The Defence of Britain Project, ran from April 1995 to March 2002 under the auspices of the Council for British Archaeology. In that time, nearly 20,000 twentieth century military sites in the United Kingdom were recorded by an army of some 600 volunteers.