The southern, estuary, end of Caldicot Firing Range is still in use for firing though now privately owned (NPRN 419523). The target area appears to be largely unchanged since its portrayal on the 1921 OS 25-inch plan. The target end of the range comprises a massive stop butt in front of which is a berm and glacis with machinery for raising and lowering the targets, in front of which is a low bank.
The stop butt is a turfed-over linear sand bank measuring some 35m long (NE-SW), 12m-15m wide and about 4m high. It is revetted with timber on its lower north-west side and incorporates the sea wall on its south-east side where it is revetted with boulders. A two metre wide berm separates the stop butt from the glacis, a stone-lined trench containing eight original target-raising mechanisms though seemingly now out of use and littered with debris. The bank abutting the glacis is 4m-5m wide and 1.5m high.
The 1921 map shows a building, probably a store-room for the targets and other items, to the immediate west of the target site. This building is no longer present but appears to have been enclosed by a massive L-shaped bank (not shown on the map), densely overgrown, projecting from the north-west corner of the target area; a modern brick-built building has been built into the south end of this bank. The map also shows a rectangular fenced area immediately behind the stop butt but this is no longer present.
Only the 100 yard and 200 yard shooting positions now remain here, each in the form of a line of eight rectangular gravel patches on a low bank, 0.1m high, possibly the re-developed, pared-down remnants of the original banks.

David Leighton & Medwyn Parry, RCAHMW, 27 November 2013