NHER 38796 (Monument record) - Four World War Two bomb craters

October 2004. Norfolk NMP.
A line of four probable bomb craters dating to World War Two are visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs (S1 to S3), from TG 2525 3953 to TG 2518 3953. They were earthworks in January 1943 (S1), and appear to have been relatively fresh (and therefore recently created) at this date, although their exact physical appearance is masked by a covering of snow. Since they lie in an arable field it seems most likely that they were formed after the field was last ploughed, presumably during late summer or early autumn in 1942, as otherwise they might be expected to have a less crisp appearance. They were certainly levelled by ploughing by 1946, when they are visible as cropmarks (S2). They were still visible as cropmarks in 1989 (S3).

The craters form an almost straight line for a distance of approximately 65m, each spaced between 6m and 16m apart. The earthwork craters measured up to 9m in diameter.
(S1-3)
S. Tremlett (NMP), 12 October 2004.