Monument record MDO44880 - Second World War firing range, Blandford Camp, Tarrant Monkton, Tarrant Launceston

A group of structures and earthworks on the east 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 east side of Blandford Camp are visible on 1940s aerial photographs [1, 2]. The features comprise two rhomboid concrete pits with banks on either side, each with two crescent-shaped concrete berms or walls, plus some other ancillary rectilinear structures. They 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.

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

<2> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 FS 2153 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18613.

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