NHER 27554 (Monument record) - World War Two bomb craters

August 2005. Norfolk NMP.
Five World War Two bomb craters are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs (S1 to S3), from TG 5136 0533 to TG 5158 0523. Their linear arrangement, even spacing and similar size suggests that they were created during a single raid. The intended target may have been Great Yarmouth or either the East Suffolk Railway 230m to the northwest (NHER 13574) or the Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway (Southern Section) 435m to the east (NHER 13575). 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.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 23 August 2005.