NHER 12733 (Structure record) - World War Two Type 28 pillbox

August 1977. Field Observation.
Pill box. Brick, polygonal, with concrete slits.
Visited E. Rose (NAU) 17 August 1977.

Plan and illustration in (S1).

Defensive Structures Project.
See record form in file by source [1], who adds:
Rare, type 28 pillbox dating to around 1940. Large, octagonal with large table and loophole for heavy machine gun.
Survey No. G3-1.
See recording form and photographs.
D. Walker (NLA) July 1996.

15 May 1998. Field Observation.
Note the north-west angle, where is the large loophole, is rounded. At some post-war date the interior has been painted in bright colour patterns, but since filled with litter again.
E. Rose (NLA) 15 May 1998.

March 2022. Aylsham and Brampton Aerial Investigation and Mapping (AIM) Project.
A type 28 Second World War pillbox (see above) can be seen as a structure on aerial photographs. (S2-S4). The pillbox was part of the defensive features for Oulton Airfield (NHER 7364). The feature can be seen as a structure on the 1940s aerial photographs (S2) and on the 2007 Google Earth imagery (S3). The pillbox is covered by vegetation on the recent (2020) aerial photographs (S4). It is most likely that the pillbox still survives under the area of vegetation.
The mapped extent of this structure has been amended from a point to a polygon [1].
J. Powell (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 07 March 2022.