Monument record MDO43222 - Second World War anti aircraft battery, Cattistock Lane, Maiden Newton

A group of rectilinear structures are visible on 1940s aerial photographs on either side of Cattistock Lane, on the northwest side of Maiden Newton. The features may be part of a Second World War anti aircraft battery and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

DOMESTIC SITE. SRF, with location plan. Cookhouse. Recorder- G. Matthews. <1-3>

A group of rectilinear structures are visible on 1940s aerial photographs on either side of Cattistock Lane, on the northwest side of Maiden Newton <4>. The features comprise of seven 9.8m by 6m rectilinear huts positioned in a row on the northeast side of the lane and two 17.8m by 6m huts on the south side. Gun emplacements and nissen huts are recorded at this location by the Pillbox Study Group and these features may be assoicated with those features, forming part of an anti aircraft battery <5>. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

They are built over and no longer visible on current Google Earth imagery.

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

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

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

<4> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 RS 4383-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16525.

<5> Pillbox Study Group, xx-xx-2021, Maiden Newton - Poole Harbour Stop Line (Digital archive). SDO17140.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1413260 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 22 2024 4:01PM