World War Two Nazi bunker discovered inside ancient Roman fort on Guernsey
Nazi World War Two bunker is discovered built INSIDE 1,700 year-old fortified Roman fort on island in the English Channel where concentration camp was built
Archaeologists digging up a 1,700 year-old Roman tower on Alderney have found that a WWII German bunker was built inside the towerThe bunker was put ‘exactly inside’ the Roman tower’s 10ft thick walls, archaeologist Dr Jason Monaghan said The experts found the Germans built their bunker right up against the Roman stonework and evidence of a German observation post at the outer face of the towerIt is located at the Alderney Nunnery, a 320 square foot building with towers that was built around 350 A.D.The Nunnery is one of the most well preserved Roman forts in the British Isles and is located near the Lager Sylt Concentration Camp
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Archaeologists digging up the remains of an ancient Roman tower on the Channel Island of Alderney have discovered that a World War Two was built by Nazis inside the tower.
The bunker is located at the Alderney Nunnery, a 320 square foot building with rounded corners and towers that was built around 350 A.D.
It is considered one of the most well preserved Roman forts in the British Isles and is located on the same island as the Lager Sylt Concentration Camp, which was uncovered in detail last year for the first time since World War Two.
Archaeologists digging up the remains of an ancient Roman tower on the English island of Alderney have discovered that a World War II German bunker was built inside the tower
The bunker was put ‘exactly inside’ the Roman tower’s 10ft thick walls, archaeologist Dr Jason Monaghan said
One fact that surprised the researchers is that the ‘Germans built their bunker right up against the Roman stonework,’ Dig Alderney, a charity focused on the archaeology of the island, wrote in a Facebook post.
They also found evidence that the Germans took precautions with the Roman tower wall, ‘for whom all that Roman concrete is just extra protection,’ the charity wrote on Facebook.
The archaeologists also found evidence of a German observation post at the outer face of the tower.
Archaeologist Dr Jason Monaghan, who is leading the dig, told the BBC that the experts found that the bunker was placed ‘exactly inside’ the Roman tower’s 10ft thick walls.
‘We have seen the way the Germans have inserted a personnel bunker exactly inside the old Roman tower,’ Monaghan told the news outlet.
According to Alderney’s travel website, the Nunnery was once occupied by the Tudors, British soldiers and the aforementioned Germans.
There are also remnants of structures from both the Medieval and Napoleonic eras.
In 2011, the ruins of the tower were confirmed to be from the Roman era.
Monaghan added that the researchers are looking are how the different occupants intersected with each other, as they look through a ‘whole succession of buildings, drains and mystery walls intersecting each other.’
‘We’ve just come across three floors all on top of each other and we’re just trying to disentangle what eras they come from,’ he told the BBC.
Digging at the site has been completed for 2021, and will resume again in 2022, according to an August 29 Facebook post.
DailyMail.com has reached out to the archaeologists with a request for more information on this story.
The island was controlled by Nazi soldiers (pictured) between 1940 and 1945 during WWII
The Lager Sylt concentration camp (pictured), one of the most infamous of WWII, was located on Alderney
The remains of what was the entrance to the former German concentration camp S S Lager Sylt
Alderney was home a number of Nazi bunkers, gun emplacements, tunnels, air-raid shelters and other buildings during their occupation from 1940-1945
The island was controlled by the Nazis between 1940 and 1945 during the war.
The entire population of Alderney, about 1,500 residents, were evacuated in June 1940, with most winding up in Britain.
It was the only part of the British Isles that was occupied by Nazi Germany during the war and was considered a stronghold, containing the aforementioned Lager Sylt concentration camp and another, Lager Norderney.
Much of Lager Sylt is now privately-owned and very little remains above ground, after the Nazis destroyed and burned almost all evidence of the camp and its unspeakable monstrosities in 1944.
Alderney was also home to two work camps: Lager Helgoland and Lager Borkum.
It was also home to a number of bunkers, gun emplacements, tunnels, air-raid shelters and other buildings.
