NHER 27277 (Monument record) - World war Two pillbox

March 2005. Norfolk NMP.
A World War Two pillbox and associated military structures are visible as extant structures on aerial photographs (S1-5), centred around TG 5147 1553. The pillbox, probably a Type 22, is first visible on photographs taken in August 1940 (S1) and by February 1941 (S3) appears to have a structure, perhaps a mounting of some kind, positioned on its roof. Both the pillbox and a small concrete structure to its south-east (which could feasibly have fallen from the pillbox's roof) are visible on photographs taken in 1953 (S5). Further to the south-east is a second small structure; this is only visible on aerial photographs taken in December 1940 and February 1941 and it may have been a temporary military installation.

A pillbox and spigot mortar emplacement listed in S6 at this approximate location almost certainly equate to the structures described above. Either of the two smaller mapped structures might represent the spigot mortar emplacement, or this could even refer to the postulated mounting on the roof of the pillbox. Information contained in S5 and later aerial photographs suggest that the latter was destroyed or covered by sand some time after 1955.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 17 March 2005.