Monument record MDO39282 - Two Second World War impact craters, Barnsfield Heath, St Leonards and St Ives

The probable sites of two Second World War bomb impact crater are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1947 on Barnsfield Heath. This whole area has since been disturbed by earthmoving associated with the construction of the Test Tracks and they are no longer visible on recent imagery. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

The probable sites of two Second World War bomb impact crater are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1947 on Barnsfield Heath (1). This whole area has since been disturbed by earthmoving associated with the construction of the Test Tracks and they are no longer visible on recent imagery (2). The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Royal Air Force, 10-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1964 RP 3012-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15275.

<2> Royal Air Force, 31-AUG-1962, RAF 543/1859 F22 0478-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15262.

<3> GetMapping, 2014, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO14101.

Record last edited

Mar 28 2017 11:54AM