NHER 42521 (Monument record) - World War Two light anti aircraft battery south of New Cutt Farm, Great Yarmouth

February 2006. Norfolk NMP.
A World War Two light anti aircraft (LAA) battery is visible as buildings, structures and earthworks on aerial photographs taken from 1944 onwards (S1)-(S4), centred at TG 5131 0652. It is not visible on aerial photographs taken in March of that year (S5) and appears to have been built after that date. The main element of the site was a rectilinear, embanked and revetted gun emplacement, located at TG 5132 0653. This was sited on top of a large, amorphous mound which, like the linear bank along the east side of the field, is probably of late post medieval or modern origin and derived from the spoil created during the excavation of nearby drainage ditches. Neither earthwork has been mapped by the NMP. Various huts and other structures are visible along the south side of the site, some of which may have been accommodation huts or similar, while others perhaps had an operational role. Some of the structures may have been pre-existing farm buildings. The four circular structures (around TG 5129 0650) were tents. The function of various other structures and earthworks, including a small mound and two pits at TG 5134 0651 and a concrete platform at TG 5131 0654, is not known. A possible World War Two structure located approximately 160m to the east of the site may be associated with the site. No trace of the battery is visible on more recent aerial photographs of the site, fopr example (S6).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 15 February 2006.