NHER 50761 (Monument record) - Site of possible World War Two emplacement

February 2008. Norfolk NMP.
A possible World War Two emplacement is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs (S1)-(S2), centred at TG 2611 1494. It lies on the southern edge of the documented site of a World War Two bomb decoy (NHER 13550), and was probably a dependent feature of this larger site. As the decoy appears to have been dismantled by 1946, when the earliest available aerial photographs were taken, the exact purpose of the emplacement is unclear. In 1946 (S1) it is visible as only a bulge in the hedgeline, the circular bank and internal pit being visible in 1947 (S2). A sketch plan of the decoy (S3) marks an ‘Oil Bomb’ slightly to the west of this location, on the other side of the (now removed) hedgeline. This could refer to the emplacement, or the latter could instead have been used for a gun. The site has since been levelled.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 1 February 2008.