Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Dome Gunnery Trainer, Pembrey Airfield
Cefn Sidan, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Cefn Sidan, Carmarthenshire, recorded as Gunnery Training Dome (Post Medieval/Modern).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Gunnery Training Dome
- Period
- Post Medieval/Modern
- Date of designation
- 6 October 1989
- Community
- Cefn Sidan
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.70950, -4.30620
- SAM number
- CM248
- Cadw record number
- 2176
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 229 Carmarthen (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1920 · Sheet 100. Llanelly. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- Sheet 7 South Wales (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument consists of the remains of a gunnery training dome. At Pembrey the structure consists of a hemispherical concrete dome. The trainee air gunner was placed in a central swivelling seat with a camera gun and silhouettes of aircraft were back-projected on to the walls of the dome trainer.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of World War II anti-aircraft and coastal defence practices. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. Gunnery training domes may be part of a larger cluster of anti-invasion defences and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
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- Garreg Lwyd Enclosure 600m SE of Crosslane CottagesEnclosure1 mi
- Cae Newydd Railway BridgeTransport1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.