Death and Dominoes - The First POW Camp (Norman Cross, Cambridgeshire)

Wessex Archaeology Ltd

Portway House, Old Sarum Park, Salisbury, Wilts SP4 6EB.

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"Between 1792 and 1818 over 200,000 prisoners of war were brought to Britain, as a result of the Napoleonic Wars with France. The existing prisons were soon overflowing, so in 1797 a large prison camp was built at Norman Cross in Cambridgeshire – ‘The Norman Cross Depot for Prisoners of War’. This was the first of its kind in the country, specially designed with health and hygiene in mind, and housing up to 7000 inmates. We know a fair amount about the Norman Cross camp from documentary records, plans and contemporary drawings, but little is known about the surviving archaeological remains, a situation that Time Team hoped to address.
Nine trenches across the site confirmed......................................................................." etc.

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