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

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

The lookout post hasremained a mysterysince its closure, with online sleuths suggesting it was buried somewhere between the castle and the North Sea.

Britain was once dotted with around 1,500 ROC posts, a little-knownCold War network, said Kevin Booth, senior curator at English Heritage.

“It seems strange to have a Cold War bunker built inside Scarborough Castle.”

“Wherever you lived in Britain, you were probably no more than a few miles from an ROC post,” he told Jam Press.

Booth added, “It seems strange to have a Cold War bunker built inside Scarborough Castle, but in many ways, it is a perfect location.”

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The expert cited the bunker’s strategic position on a headland used since the Bronze Age, including during the Roman period and the Middle Ages.

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

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He described it as a “1960s concrete bunker watching for Armageddon.”

The Scarborough bunker was intended for volunteers tracking nuclear activity in the event of war.(Jam Press/English Heritage)

“Old mapping gives a sense of where it might be, but it really comes down to survey — looking under the ground with radar to find the big black blob that is a concrete structure,” he said.

The bunker remains sealed for now, and researchers found that it had around six feet of water in it.

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Officials hope to eventually open the flooded bunker once it becomes possible.(Jam Press/Jim Holden/English Heritage)

The find adds to a growing list of recent archaeological discoveries across England.

Excavators recently foundfour-wheeled wagonsfrom the Iron Age near the village of Melsonby in Yorkshire — the first such discovery in Britain.

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Officials also recently announced they had identified a2,000-year-old coinunknowingly used as bus fare in Leeds.