A replica World War One battlefield where soldiers trained in trench warfare before being sent to the front has been discovered in Hampshire.
Two sets of opposing trench systems, with a no man’s land between them, were found beneath heathland at the Ministry of Defence’s Browndown site in Gosport.
Gosport Council’s conservation officer Rob Harper spotted the trenches on a 1950s aerial photograph recently.
Armed forces volunteers are now helping to map and record the battlefield site.
The size of 17 football pitches, each trench system had a 200m long (660ft) front line, supply trenches and dug outs.
