Monument record MBC45280 - A Second World War roadside ammunition dump, Home 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 W facing side of the road leading north out of Poundon village to Twyford about 290 metres N of Home Farm and centred at SP 65093 25685, the ammunition storage area comprises 18 rectangular buildings, each about 5 x 3 metres and laid out in 9 pairs with long sides perpendicular to the road, extending over about 150 metres. These portable corrugated iron shelters, or hutments, were usually camouflaged and covered stacks of artillery or small arms ammunition. A local eyewitness recalls stockpiles of ammunition in the area that were kept by the roadside in small Nissen-type huts with tarpaulins on the ends. Roadside storage not only made the ammunition easily accessible but dispersed the risk of a large loss of munitions in the event of an explosion, whether accidental or the result of a German air raid. The munitions storage hutments are visible on aerial photographs taken in 1946 and 1947, but all have been demolished by 1961, but were probably dismantled during the late 1940s or early 1950s (1-6).