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Auxiliary Unit base, first found by the recorder (as a boy) in 1946. Access was by either of two wooden trap doors set in the surface from which you went down a vertical wooden ladder. Ventilation was by two or three wooden shafts about 12insx12ins cross section which came out just above ground level at the base of mature trees. All vents and trap doors were hidden on the surface with a thick covering of pine needles and branches and were not easy to detect. There were two double bunk beds, metal with metal springs. The recorder remembers finding stubs of candles in the bunker but no signs of chairs, tables, toilet facilities, or cooking facilities. There was also a small board on one wall with screw terminals which was probably part of a telephone link. The floor was probably hard earth rather than concrete. The semi-circular walls and roof were of galvanised iron, cold, damp, and going rusty.
The bunker was still there in the 1950s. By the 1960s the site had been fenced around, and there was a depression in the ground as if the structure had collapsed. In the late 1960s trees on Conegar Hill were felled and replanting altered the layout of paths. The recorder states that he would be unlikely to able to refind the exact site.
(Source: Written account 1997/02)
| Type of site | AUXILIARY UNIT OPERATIONAL BASE |
|---|---|
| Location | On Conegar Hill. |
| Area |
Wootton Fitzpaine, Dorset, England |
| Grid reference |
SY 380 955
(Scale: 1:50000
)
|
| Period | WW2 |
| Condition | Unknown |
| Materials | Clay Brick, Concrete, Corrugated Iron, Wood |
| Recorder | Bowditch, E.D. |
| Attached Sheets | (2) - plan of the structure (DIGITISED), and site location map. |
| Photographs |
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| DOB site reference: | S0006485 |
| Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Demolition, partial, By 1969 |
