Monument record MDO29684 - Second World War radar station, Portland

A Second World War radar station is visible as structure on aerial photographs of the 1940s to the east of Lloyds Cottage, Portland. The complex of buildings is on the site of, or may incorporate, an earlier signal station (see MDO19628) and a semaphore station (see MWX4401).

Site of World War II or later radar station near Lloyd Cottage, Portland Bill. RADAR STATION. From site list with letter. Isle of Portland. Recorder- R. Perry. <1-3>

A Second World War radar station is visible as structure on aerial photographs of the 1940s <4> to the east of Lloyds Cottage, Portland. The complex of buildings is on the site of,or may incorporate, an earlier signal station (see MDO19628) and a semaphore station (see MWX4401). The site consists of two complexes of buildings, masts and other scattered buildings, connected up by paths and surrounded by barbed wire entanglements. Several foxholes and slit trenches are positioned around the buildings. The radar station complex covers an area measuring approximately 325 m by 260 m. This site was digitally plotted during the South West Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (Dorset). The Pillbox Study Group also list one of the defensive trenches within this site, but this has not been separetely numbered.

<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, 13-APR-1946, RAF 106G/UK/1411 4051-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13031.

<5> Thompson, S, 2020, Pillbox Study Group: Defence of Britain Project sites not in the Dorset Historic Environment Record, e41750 (Unpublished document). SDO16685.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1413237 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 6 2024 4:34PM