NHER 50711 (Monument record) - Probable World War Two military site, west of White Lodge

December 2007. Norfolk NMP.
A probable World War Two military site is visible as a group of structures, buildings and possible earthworks on aerial photographs (S1)-(S2), centred at TG 2917 1639. Its outline is clearly visible as an area of undisturbed ground within arable fields (mapped by the NMP as ‘Extent of Area’; the individual elements of the site have not been mapped). Its function is not known; it perhaps housed a searchlight or gun emplacement, or acted as an outlying defensive or communications site for Rackheath airfield (NHER 8170) 1.3km to its south. Unfortunately the site is not particularly clear on the earliest available photographs taken in April 1946 (S1), and by July of that year it had already been largely dismantled (S2). There is no evidence that any element of the site still survives.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 6 December 2007.