NHER 27628 (Monument record) - Probable World War Two bomb crater

September 2005. Norfolk NMP.
A probable World War Two bomb crater is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs (S1 to S2), centred at approximately TG 5155 0886. By March 1944 (S1) the feature appears to have become partially ‘naturalised’ as a pond, but its rather untidy appearance and the fact that it encroaches upon the drain to its north suggests that it originated as a bomb crater. The intended target may have been Great Yarmouth, or the bomb could have been dropped opportunistically or even at random prior to the enemy aircraft making its return flight across the North Sea. More recent aerial photographs (for example (S3)) indicate that the crater has now been levelled.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 5 September 2005.