WW1 practice trenches Perham Down camp

[morrisc8]

I have a few original air recon photos of Perham Down camp taken in 1942 and on the right of the photo are the WW1 practice trenches that you can still see.

Link to more info. https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/.../week-2-perham-down-wwi...

 

[Moonraker]

Very interesting, and thanks for posting. The article refers to "a rare and detailed contemporary map of the system" - can you provide any info on this, please?

[morrisc8]

Hi Moonraker,  Sorry i do not have that info but would like to see it as well.

[Moonraker]

I've just spent an interesting hour looking at my notes and reading three more articles on www.wessexarch.co.uk  about the Perham Down trench excavations of 2016. I think that your aerial photograph shows those at grid reference 249460, east of Perham Down Camp,  whereas the articles (though,  confusingly, referring to "Perham  Down trenches") are about archaeological digs at Bedlam Bottom, to the south at 252474. A map of the latter system is on this thread of 2021.

(You'll see that I got very excited - and confused - about a postcard that I thought might show the Bedlam trenches.)

[morrisc8]

Thanks for the link/thread

[morrisc8]

 

Closeup of the ww1 trenches used for training