NHER 27879 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two gun emplacement

October 2002. Norfolk NMP.
Earthworks of World War Two gun emplacement and internal structure, visible on RAF aerial photographs from 1946 (S1) and 1950 (S2). The emplacement consists a roughly circular emplacement, with a slight funnel entrance to the south- west. The site measures approximately 13m by 11m. Clearly visible on the 1946 RAF aerial photographs (S1) within the centre of this enclosure is a polygonal structure at TG 0771 4218, measuring 2.5m by 2m, with a narrow projectile to the south-west, 2.5m by 0.5m. It is possible that this structure relates to the housing of the gun, such as the holdfast or tripod. It is also possible that it is the gun itself as the heath may still have been in use as an army training area, perhaps in association with the Weybourne Camp to the east (NHER 11335). There are around twenty gun emplacements on the heath, not all of these can have been in contemporary use. Another possibility is that they were being constructed for army training purposes.
S. Massey (NMP), 16 April 2003.