Cold War bunker 'waiting for Armageddon' found beneath medieval castle in 'perfect location'

Experts precocious uncovered a atomic bunker from the Cold War — located, strangely, connected the grounds of a medieval castle successful England.

The bunker was decommissioned and sealed successful 1968, British quality bureau Jam Press reported.

The hideout was presumed mislaid until archaeologists from English Heritage precocious pinpointed its determination astatine Scarborough Castle successful North Yorkshire.

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The tiny abstraction measures astir 15 feet 6 inches agelong and 7 feet 6 inches wide.

The bunker was intended for volunteers of the Royal Observer Corps (ROC), who would show and study connected atomic blasts successful the lawsuit of war.

Archaeologists with English Heritage person located a long-sealed Cold War bunker hidden beneath Scarborough Castle successful North Yorkshire. (Jam Press/Jim Holden/English Heritage)

The lookout station has remained a enigma since its closure, with online sleuths suggesting it was buried determination betwixt the castle and the North Sea.

Britain was erstwhile dotted with astir 1,500 ROC posts, a little-known Cold War network, said Kevin Booth, elder curator astatine English Heritage.

"It seems unusual to person a Cold War bunker built wrong Scarborough Castle."

"Wherever you lived successful Britain, you were astir apt nary much than a fewer miles from an ROC post," helium told Jam Press.

Booth added, "It seems unusual to person a Cold War bunker built wrong Scarborough Castle, but successful galore ways, it is simply a cleanable location."

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The adept cited the bunker's strategical presumption connected a headland utilized since the Bronze Age, including during the Roman play and the Middle Ages.

The bunker was sealed successful 1968; it had remained hidden beneath the castle grounds for decades. (Jam Press/Jim Holden/English Heritage)

He described it arsenic a "1960s factual bunker watching for Armageddon."

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Booth added that researchers were keen to find it and "reopen it [to] spot what was inside."

The Scarborough bunker was intended for volunteers tracking atomic enactment successful the lawsuit of war. (Jam Press/English Heritage)

"Old mapping gives a consciousness of wherever it mightiness be, but it truly comes down to survey — looking nether the crushed with radar to find the large achromatic blob that is simply a factual structure," helium said.

The bunker remains sealed for now, and researchers recovered that it had astir six feet of h2o successful it.

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They anticipation to unfastened it successful the aboriginal erstwhile it is harmless to access.

Officials anticipation to yet unfastened the flooded bunker erstwhile it becomes possible. (Jam Press/Jim Holden/English Heritage)

The find adds to a increasing database of caller archaeological discoveries crossed England.

Excavators precocious recovered four-wheeled wagons from the Iron Age adjacent the colony of Melsonby successful Yorkshire — the archetypal specified find successful Britain.

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Officials besides precocious announced they had identified a 2,000-year-old coin unknowingly utilized arsenic autobus fare successful Leeds.