NHER 27594 (Monument record) - World War Two bomb craters

August 2005. Norfolk NMP.
At least eight World War Two bomb craters are visible as water filled earthworks on aerial photographs (S1), in a line between TG 5073 0871 and TG 5084 0842. The fact that the craters form a line suggests that they were the products of a single raid. The variation in size between the craters might reflect two different types of bomb being dropped in the same attack, such as high explosive bombs being dropped over a site already marked by incendiary devices. Alternatively, the craters might have been formed cumulatively in successive attacks, their linear arrangement being a coincidence. The intended target might have been the railway line and Breydon Junction a few hundred metres to the north and northwest. There are further possible craters in the surrounding area, visible on the same photographs, but these cannot be distinguished from natural hollows with any certainty and consequently have not been mapped.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 24 August 2005.