NHER 51531 (Monument record) - Quarry pit or bomb crater

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Summary

A circular pit, about 4m in diameter. It could be a quarry pit or a bomb crater.The description of this feature is consistent with the shell craters associated with a World War Two tank training area (NHER 53659) located on Ringland Hills.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG11SW
Civil Parish RINGLAND, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Map

April 2008. Field visit.
Circular pit, about 4m in diameter. Probably about 1m deep, but difficult to say for certain as soil has recently been bulldozed into it. It could be a quarry pit or a bomb crater.
D. Robertson (NLA), 9 May 2008.

June 2010. Norfolk NMP.
The description of this feature is consistent with the shell craters associated with a World War Two tank training area (NHER 53659) located on Ringland Hills. Although no actual crater can clearly be distinguished at this location on the aerial photographs, unless it has already become overgrown with vegetation by 1945 (S1). The location of this site does however broadly coincide with location of an earlier quarry pit, approximately 14m across, which has been incorporated into the tank training area.
S. Horlock (NMP), 16 June 2010.

  • <S1> Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/LA/191 1075-6 22-MAR-1945 (NMR).
  • <S2> Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/479 (FP) 1044-5 06-JUL-1945 (NMR).
  • <S3> Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1428 4025-6 16-APR-1946 (NMR).

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Record last edited

Jun 8 2011 10:20AM

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