Monument record MDO41243 - Early 20th Century military weapons pit, Broadstone Golf Course, Poole

A small semi-circular banked feature on the southwest side of Broadstone Golf Course is visible on aerial photographs. The feature may be a small dugout or weapons pit of early 20th Century military origin, possibly associated with a wider wartime military training area. The feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A small semi-circular banked feature on the southwest side of Broadstone Golf Course is visible on aerial photographs (1).

The feature is 6.5m long by 5.8m deep and is similar in form to numerous other such features dispersed across Canford and Knighton Heaths. It may be a small dugout or weapons pit of early 20th Century military origin, possibly associated with a wider wartime military training area.

The site is still part of Broadstone Golf Course on current Google Earth imagery but under scrub; the feature is no longer visible. It was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-46, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RP 3199-2000 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16019.

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Sep 10 2024 10:48AM