NHER 27565 (Monument record) - World War Two bomb crater

August 2005. Norfolk NMP.
A probable World War Two bomb crater is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs (S1 and 2), centred at TG 5030 0710. It is first visible on aerial photographs taken in March 1944 (S1), by which time it had already become semi naturalized as a pond. Its size and circular shape, however, suggests that it was formed by a crater rather than being of modern agricultural origin. The intended target for the bomb might have been Great Yarmouth, or it could have been jettisoned more or less at random prior to the enemy aircraft making its return flight across the North Sea. The crater is just visible as a vegetation mark and perhaps also as a shallow depression on the most recent aerial photographs consulted (S3).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 24 August 2005.