Monument record MDO29713 - Second World War military buildings, Tout Quarries, Portland

A group of possible Second World War military buildings are visible as structures on aerial photographs of the 1940s at the western edge of Tout Quarries, Portland.

MILITARY BUILDING. From site list with letter Isle of Portland Recorder- R. Perry. <1-3>

A group of possible Second World War military buildings are visible as structures on aerial photographs <4-5> of the 1940s at the western edge of Tout Quarries, Portland. A number of the building bases are still visible as cleared spaces on aerial imagery of 2009. <6> The buildings may be associated with a possible searchlight base (see MDO29712). One of the buildings may be that referred to in EHA record 1413229. This site was digitally plotted during the South West Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (Dorset).

<1> Council for British Archaeology, 1995, Defence of Britain Project, 2559 (Digital archive). SWX5.

<2> Council for British Archaeology, 2003, Defence of Britain Project Database, 2559 (Machine readable data file). SDO128.

<3> Council for British Archaeology, 2006, Defence of Britain Project Archive DEB01, 2559 (Excavation archive). SDO17227.

<4> Royal Air Force, 15-NOV-1949, SY 6872/13-16 RAF 30188/PSFO 0001-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13049.

<5> Royal Air Force, 13-APR-1946, RAF 106G/UK/1411 4043-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13039.

<6> XX-XXX-2009, Google Earth (Aerial Photograph). SDO12705.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1413229 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 6 2024 4:34PM