Discovery of practice trenches

[Mick M]

This recent article in a Newark paper may interest folk. A gent assisting in the search for a missing person sent gis drone up and found trenches in an area he regularly walks.

 

https://www.newarkadvertiser.co.uk/news/drone-pilot-makes-historic-discovery-in-newark-that-helped-s-9266542/?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=discover&utm_campaign=CCwqGAgwKhAIACoHCAow9-idCzCI87UDMP-DYzDY1G8&utm_content=bullets

[mancpal]

Excellent stuff. I wonder how much more can be discovered by drones during a very dry spell. I don’t think purely in terms of WW1, surely Saxon, Viking, Norman and other breeds must have ‘scarred’ the landscape though not necessarily visible from ground level.

Simon

[Mick M]

21 minutes ago, mancpal said:

Excellent stuff. I wonder how much more can be discovered by drones during a very dry spell. I don’t think purely in terms of WW1, surely Saxon, Viking, Norman and other breeds must have ‘scarred’ the landscape though not necessarily visible from ground level.

Simon

Some years ago they used them for a Large scale survey of the Stonehenge site and it changed much of what was known, it was much larger than thought and many features kin the area were connected....

[CharlesPeter]

Excellent new photos!

Some of these practice trenches were known about before this dry summer and they appear in Historic England's  aerial mapping explorer  data. The recent drone footage shows just part of what exists and if you go to the 2020 GoogleEarth data you will see the distinctive castellated trenches and more extending through the next two fields.

The Newark Advertiser dated 9th Dec 1914 describes the creation of this training ground by the Royal Engineers. (For those with access to newspaper archives the edition for 11th November 1914 describes the other activities of the REs )

 

 

[Mick M]

9 minutes ago, CharlesPeter said:

Excellent new photos!

Some of these practice trenches were known about before this dry summer and they appear in Historic England's  aerial mapping explorer  data. The recent drone footage shows just part of what exists and if you go to the 2020 GoogleEarth data you will see the distinctive castellated trenches and more extending through the next two fields.

The Newark Advertiser dated 9th Dec 1914 describes the creation of this training ground by the Royal Engineers. (For those with access to newspaper archives the edition for 11th November 1914 describes the other activities of the REs )

 

 

Thanks for that, Mercurius did hold back hos punches for the ignorant and ill-informed!

I wonder if OS would note them as a historical feature?

Mick.

[Gunner Bailey]

Dry weather is showing up all sorts of things. A few weeks ago we stopped at the Wittering Garage/ Service station on the A1 and about 200 yards away in a field you could see the outlines of about 12 buildings (long gone) that were probably part of the wartime airfield but returned to agriculture some time ago.