Monument record MBC44911 - A Second World War roadside ammunition dump, Huntsmill Farm

A Second World War roadside ammunition dump is visible on historic aerial photographs and was mapped as part of the North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18304). Located on the lane between Huntsmill Farm and Hogpit Spinney and centred at SP 63606 35305, the ammunition storage area comprises 6 rectangular buildings about 5 x 3 metres spaced out in 3 pairs and a single over about 55 metres on the south side of the road. These portable corrugated iron shelters, or hutments, were usually camouflaged and covered stacks of artillery or small arms ammunition. Roadside storage not only made the ammunition easily accessible but dispersed the risk of a large loss of munitions in one event as a result of a German air raid. The munitions storage hutments are visible on aerial photographs taken in 1946, but all have been demolished by 1961 (1-4).