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Home Front legacy project
Armed forces volunteers have been delving deeper into the recently discovered remains of a First World War practice battlefield.
Used for training troops before they were sent to the Front, the practice battlefield is the size of nearly 17 football pitches, and has 2 sets of opposing trench systems with a no-man’s land in between.
The overgrown and forgotten century-old site was rediscovered a few months ago when Rob Harper, conservation officer at Gosport Council, spotted what he recognised as trench systems on a 1950s aerial photograph.
The find marks the start of the Home Front Legacy 1914-18 project which English Heritage and the Council for British Archaeology (CBA) are working together on to record the physical remains of the war on home territory.
