NHER 27566 (Monument) - World War Two bomb crater

August 2005. Norfolk NMP.
A probable World War Two bomb crater is visible as a soilmark and cropmark on aerial photographs (S1 to 3), centred at TG 5115 0550. It is first visible on aerial photographs taken in March 1944 (S1), but as it had already been levelled the bomb which created it must have been dropped some time before this date. The intended target may have been Great Yarmouth, the East Suffolk Railway less than 20m to the east (NHER 13574) or the light anti aircraft battery 50m to the northeast (NHER 27567). Alternatively, the bombs may have been jettisoned more or less at random prior to the enemy aircraft making its return flight across the North Sea. It should be noted that although the identification of the site as a bomb crater seems the most likely interpretation of the cropmark, the possibility that it represents the site of a modern agricultural pit cannot be ruled out. Modern Ordnance Survey maps indicate that the site may now be partially built over.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 23 August 2005.