WW2 Decoy sites

That's a well and truly buried bunker, you have more hills than us !

The bunker cannot be seen from the road, it can only be seen from the bottom of the sloping hill it's dug into.

Went for another trawl round the moss yesterday, knee deep in the bog at one point, criss crossed the place with a metal detector, from the bumnker area to the bomb craters up at parkseat....nothing!

I'm more convinced that the Q site there was only a "T" type Q site

A couple of pics here of the Gidding (Cambs) Decoy bunker:

www.geograph.org.uk/photo/741434

Any ideas if this is anything to do with a decoy site?

cabroaviation.co.uk/whotzit2.pdf

there are several of these in an area, only thing that is throwing me is the brickwork to me is not 1940s.

Looks like a clasp for a wooden mast or aerial.

Is it on a decoy site?

it's within 1 mile of a control Bunker for a decoy Airfield (Harestone moss / Easter Craigie)

There are about 6 on a dirt track one at one side of the road, then a line of about 4 /5 at the other side of the track.

Anyone know anything about the decoy site at Bodney earlier in the war (earlier, as in: before Bodney airfield was a real airfield) ?

StuW;106705 wrote:

Anyone know anything about the decoy site at Bodney earlier in the war (earlier, as in: before Bodney airfield was a real airfield) ?

Would that be the missing Swaffham decoy site (parent station Marham, extant sister decoy sites at Wormegay and South Acre )? It's fairly close to RAF Bodney. It's one I haven't yet managed to pinpoint the location of. Wormegay and South Acre are in good condition, but every account I've read describes Swaffham as having been removed completely.

Alastair;108095 wrote:

Would that be the missing Swaffham decoy site (parent station Marham, extant sister decoy sites at Wormegay and South Acre )? It's fairly close to RAF Bodney. It's one I haven't yet managed to pinpoint the location of. Wormegay and South Acre are in good condition, but every account I've read describes Swaffham as having been removed completely.

It could well be. I don't know. I just remember when I was a kid, a neighbour (now deceased) described the 2/3-size dummy aircraft at Bodney at the beginning of WWII, when it was a decoy site -- but it may well have been a separate site. (Additionally, I recently heard that a field just south of Bodney airfield was home to a dozen or so Spitfires early in the war.)