Monument record MDO31848 - Second World War gun emplacement, RAF Warmwell, Crossways

A possible gun emplacement associated with the Second World War airfield of RAF Warmwell is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of the 1940s, on Skippet Heath to the south of the airfield.

A possible gun emplacement associated with the Second World War airfield of RAF Warmwell is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of the 1940s, on Skippet Heath to the south of the airfield. The possible gun emplacement is formed of a bank which follows three sides of a rectangle. (1) The site is under tree cover on the most recent comprehensive aerial photography available to the project (2), but no trace of the site could be seen on lidar imagery. (3) This feature was digitally plotted as part of the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 3075-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13779.

<2> XX-XXX-2009, Google Earth (Aerial Photograph). SDO12705.

<3> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

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Jul 15 2020 4:22PM