NHER 50717 (Monument) - Probable World War Two military site at Stonehouse Bridge

December 2007. Norfolk NMP.
A probable World War Two military site is visible as a group of buildings and other small structures on aerial photographs (S1)-(S3), centred at TG 2957 1516. Its outline is clearly visible as an area of undisturbed ground between a hedge and an area of arable (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) 400m 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 was already being dismantled (S2). There is no evidence that any element of the site still survives.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 6 December 2007.