NHER 17820 (Monument record) - World War Two pillbox and slit trenches

Pill box, polygonal. Camouflaged with earth on top.
Original reference from Pillbox Survey. Grid reference from NAU air photograph.
E. Rose (NAU), 8 December 1981.

Seen on ground; of brick.
E. Rose (NAU), 18 August 1983.

1994. No change.

See record form in file by source [1], who adds:
Quite common type 24 pillbox on slope covering low ground behind beach.
Survey No. D2-36.
D.Walker (NLA), July 1996.

April 2004, Norfolk NMP.
(Central grid reference altered from TG 1131 4352 to TG 1128 4353).
A World War Two pillbox and associated slit trenches are visible on aerial photographs from 1940-1. The type 24 pillbox has been constructed at TG 1128 4353 by December 1940 (S1). Two additional small rectangular structures are also visible at the site by July 1941 (S2). Both of these are approximately 3m by 2m in size and were probably temporary structures. Also present in 1941 are three sections of slit trench. The largest of these is rectangular and centred on TG 1129 4352. By 1946 a line of barbed wire has been constructed along the south of the site (NHER 38565) covering some of the trenches.
(S1-2)
S. Massey (NMP), 1 April 2004.

April 2004.
Still extant (but seen only in distance).
E. Rose (NLA), 13 April 2004.

December 2004. Norfolk Rapid Coastal Zone Archaeological Survey.
Land-based survey; Area A22, Context 2:
Concrete and brick hexagonal shaped Second World War pillbox.
See assessment report (S3) for further details.
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.421).
A. Cattermole (NLA), 5 December 2007. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 July 2019.