NHER 49480 (Monument record) - Probable World War Two radar- or radio-related site at Butcher's Common

June 2007. Norfolk NMP.
A probable World War Two military site, connected with the use of radar or radio (or something similarly technological in nature) is visible as a group of structures on aerial photographs taken in 1946 (S1)-(S2), centred at TG 3348 2026. Two radar or communications towers are visible, together with a track or area of hardstanding (the latter has not been mapped by the NMP). These occupied an area of uncultivated ground (the extent of which has been mapped) in the corner of an arable field. It is one of two such sites identified in the area, the other being NHER 49479 located 400m to the northeast. An association with the World War Two radar station at Neatishead (NHER 31218), 1.5km to the southeast, seems probable for both sites, but an alternative function, as navigation aids for Coltishall airfield, for example, cannot be ruled out. The site may have been out of use by 1946, as the uncultivated area also has one or more ricks on it; this would explain the apparent absence of any huts. The towers were removed after the end of the war, and no trace of the site is visible on more recent aerial photographs of the area.

It should be noted that the location of the towers is somewhat approximate as the available photographs were not clear enough to map them more accurately.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 6 June 2007.