Monument record MDO44906 - Second World War firing range, Blandford Camp, Tarrant Monkton

A group of structures and earthworks on the northwest side of Blandford Camp are visible on 1940s aerial photographs. The features are considered likely to be a firing range of possible Second World War date and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A group of structures and earthworks on the northwest side of Blandford Camp are visible on 1940s aerial photographs [1, 2]. The features comprise two crescent-shaped concrete berms or walls with linear banks extending, that may enclose rhomboid shaped pits, each with crescent shapoed banked earthworks to the south of them. They are considered likely to be a firing range of possible Second World War date. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 RS 4008 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18888.

<2> Royal Air Force, 18-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1845 FS 2064 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18616.

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Nov 30 2022 12:00PM