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| HER Number: | MDV80315 |
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| Name: | Personnel Shelter, Dunkeswell Airfield |
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Summary
Site of a personnel shelter, one of two associated with a group of five dispersed hard standings on the western side of Dunkeswell Airfield, to provide protection from strafing runs and light explosions.
Location
| Grid Reference: | ST 128 077 |
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| Map Sheet: | ST10NW |
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| Admin Area | Devon |
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| Civil Parish | Dunkeswell |
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| District | East Devon |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | DUNKESWELL |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses: none recorded
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- BLAST SHELTER (World War II - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Full description
Royal Air Force, 1946 - 1949, Royal Air Force Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV342938.
Structure visible.
Passmore, A., 2008, Archaeological Recording of a World War II Personnel Shelter (Report - Survey). SDV347483.
Small personnel shelter, one of two associated with a group of five dispersed hard standings on the western side of Dunkeswell Airfield, to provide protection from strafing runs and light explosions. The main brick built structure was broadly rectangular, measuring a maximum of 6.6 metres long, 4.45 metres wide and 1.5 metres high, and surrounded (but not covered) by an earthen blast mound. This had been removed prior to the survey, but measurements taken on the ground of its approximate extent corresponded with that depicted on the modern Ordnance Survey map, and show it had been approximately 2.5 metres wide on the east, west and south sides, but only 1.1 metres wide on the north side. The entrance was at the north end and gave access to a corridor 5.5 metres long, and which led into two rectangular chambers 2.65 metres long by 1.45 and 1.6 metres wide. The shelter was constructed of unmarked frogged coarse red bricks on a concrete plinth, and there was no evidence to indicate that it had had a roof. Internally there were no fixtures or benches, and the traces of green and yellow paint in one of the chambers did not represent original decoration. Other details: Plan, photographs.
Ordnance Survey, 2011, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV346129.
Ordnance Survey, 2023, Mastermap 2023 (Cartographic). SDV365227.
Site now covered by a modern building.
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV342938 | Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 1946 - 1949. Royal Air Force Aerial Photographs. Royal Air Force Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Digital). |
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| SDV346129 | Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 2011. MasterMap. Ordnance Survey. Map (Digital). [Mapped feature: #107117 ] |
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| SDV347483 | Report - Survey: Passmore, A.. 2008. Archaeological Recording of a World War II Personnel Shelter. Exeter Archaeology Historic Environment Record Entry. EA6445. A4 Stapled + Digital. |
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| SDV365227 | Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 2023. Mastermap 2023. Ordnance Survey Digital Mapping. Digital. |
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Associated Monuments
| MDV45090 | Part of: Dunkeswell Airfield (Monument) |
| MDV56479 | Related to: Open blast shelter, Dunkeswell Airfield (Monument) |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events
- EDV5129 - Archaeological Recording of a World War II Personnel Shelter
| Date Last Edited: | Jun 21 2023 5:32PM |
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