Monument record MDO30423 - Early twentieth-century firing range, Wool Heath, Wool

The site of a late nineteenth or early twentieth-century firing range is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs to the north of Bovington Camp on Wool Heath.

The site of a late nineteenth or early twentieth-century firing range is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs to the north of Bovington Camp on Wool Heath (1-2). The site was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project. The range appears to have been completely levelled on more recent Dorset CC digital aerial photographs (3).

<1> Crawford, O G S, XX-XXX-XXXX, EHA SY8391/1 CCC 11755/5859-60 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13263.

<2> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 5066-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13259.

<3> Dorset County Council, XX-XXX-2002, Dorset CC Vertical Digital Photo Tile (Aerial Photograph). SDO13248.

Record last edited

Mar 6 2014 1:49PM