A picture of the brick retaining wall of the ranges stop butts - a steep sand and gravel bank
into which bullets would lodge.
One of the most impressive C20 military structures to survive on Dartmoor , built of a brick - 55m long ,
15m wide , 9m high - supported by nineteen buttresses on the north side and buttresses on the east and west sides.
Directly opposite the stop butts, are the target butts , a structure for the range operators to raise and
lower 12 targets and to patch shot holes and signal adjustments to firing points. ( see Misc Devon)
The soldiers would fire at the targets from four large earth mounds , of varying heights , to the south.
In use (1942 - 1960's).
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Location - Minor road South of the B3387 , on the Eastern edge of the moor.
A track from a gate at SX 7492 7346 leads to the structure. Park nearby.
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Date: 30/06/2019
Location: SX 7494 7391