Monument record MDO19663 - Oil fuel tanks at Castletown, Portland

Pair of Oil Fuel Tanks first shown on 1938 map <1>, but outline of site marked in 1927 <2>. Built on site of an earlier reservoir first shown on 1863 map. Two tanks shown on 1960 map <3>. Now removed. Levelled area became a sports pitch.

The site of a World War II fuel tank, now destroyed. <4-6>

The two modern fuel tanks described above in <1-3> are visible on aerial photographs of 1946 on the Sports Pitch in Castletown. They appear to have been painted with camouflage patterns during the Second World War. (4) <7> They are shown to have been removed on aerial imagery of 2009. (5) <8> This site was digitally plotted during the South West Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (Dorset).

<1> 1938, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, War Department revision sheet LVIII.11 (Map). SDO10329.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1929, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, sheet LVIII.7 (Map). SDO10336.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1960, Ordnance Survey 1:25000 second series, sheet SY67/77 (Map). SDO10354.

<4> Council for British Archaeology, 1995, Defence of Britain Project, 2573 (Digital archive). SWX5.

<5> Council for British Archaeology, 2003, Defence of Britain Project Database, 2573 (Machine readable data file). SDO128.

<6> Council for British Archaeology, 2006, Defence of Britain Project Archive DEB01, 2573 (Excavation archive). SDO17227.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1413243 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 12 2023 6:51AM