21 - 27 June 2027 - Broad Chalke, Salisbury

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Our WW1 trench continues to take shape..

Sarah Ewen

19/04/2016

The Trench will cover an area of some 70m2 and will include communication trenches, front-line trench, support trench, listening post, officers’ dug-out, other ranks’ dug-outs, fire-steps, shell-holes and wire entanglements forward of the front line. It will be supported by wooden struts and will include a combination of sandbags, wattle, planking and duck-boards. Here’s James Holland talking to Luke Winter from Cranbourne Ancient Technology Centre, who is now working on our first dug-out:

More information about our Trench Experience can be found here.

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