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Summary

Two small bomb-craters are visible in the field between the sewage works at Boxlees Hill and the River Stour on 1940s aerial photographs. It is probable that these derive from a WWII bombing raid as a dense concentration of similar features are visible 100m to the east on the same photographs. Examination of modern aerial photographs indicates that they have been infilled and levelled.

Monument Types

• BOMB CRATER (Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Full description

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Two small bomb-craters are visible in the field between the sewage works at Boxlees Hill and the River Stour on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs [1]. The southernmost measures 5m in diameter and the northernmost 4m in diameter. It is probable that these derive from a WWII bombing raid as a dense concentration of similar features are visible 100m to the east on the same photographs (MWX43354, MWX43355). Examination of modern aerial photographs indicates that they have been infilled and levelled [2].

A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [3].

<2> Google Earth (Graphic material). SWX15704.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2009-10, South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions (Digital archive). SWX15705.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document). SKE25955.

<3> Cornwall Council Historic Environment Projects and Gloucestershire County Council, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document). SKE25954.

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