Incredible drone imagery shows how the landscape from the Battle of the Somme is still scarred 100 years later

A century later and the overgrowth has barely covered the trenches and craters on the Western Front from the Battle of the Somme. 


They are now vividly clear in drone footage. Fields across a swathe of northern France became home to soldiers from Britain and the Commonwealth, France and Germany as they faced off across the front in the summer of 1916. Today grass covers the Lochnagar Crater, a dent in the earth that spans 91 meters (299 feet) wide and 21 meters (69 feet) deep. It's a huge, unusual peace memorial near the French town of Ovillers-la-Boisselle.