NHER 27875 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two gun emplacement

October 2002. Norfolk NMP.
World War Two gun emplacement on Salthouse heath visible on RAF aerial photographs from 1946 (S1) and 1950 (S2). The site is centred on TG 0734 4221 and is defined by a U-shaped bank, approximately 1m thick, and measures 10m by 8m. The entrance to the interior is to the north-west. On the 1946 RAF aerial photographs (S1) a structure of some sort, measuring 2m across, can be seen in the interior. It is likely to be the remains of the gun mount, holdfast or tripod, rather than the actual gun itself. There are approximately twenty gun emplacement type structures on Salthouse heath, it seems unlikely that all were contemporary and may have been related to training exercises. It is possible that some of them were searchlight emplacements.
S. Massey (NMP), 15 April 2003.