NHER 27618 (Monument record) - World War Two bomb craters

August 2005. Norfolk NMP.
Two World War Two bomb craters and a third possible crater or pond are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs (S1 to S2), centred at TG 5190 0992. The two northern craters are of a similar size and were probably created during the same attack. The larger feature to their south may simply be a modern pond (it is not depicted on the Ordnance Survey 2nd edition map, (S3)) but its rather untidy appearance suggests it could have originated as a bomb crater. The intended target for the bombs might have been Great Yarmouth, or they may have been dropped, more or less at random, prior to an enemy plane making its return flight across the North Sea. More recent aerial photographs (S4) indicate that all the earthworks have now been levelled.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 31 August 2005.