NHER 53253 (Monument) - Site of World War Two road block

November 2009. Norfolk NMP.
A World War Two road block is visible as a group of structures on aerial photographs (S1)-(S2), centred at TG 2028 0502. It was sited to control access along Low Road between Cringleford to the northwest and Keswick to the southeast, and it was one of numerous such defences to be erected around the outskirts of Norwich during the period.
Although visible in 1942 (S1), the road block has been mapped primarily from low-level photographs taken in 1945 (S2). By this date it consisted of two rows of concrete anti-tank cubes, of which only the marks left on the surface of the road were still visible (mapped collectively as ‘Extent of Area’ at TG 2028 0502). Disturbed ground on either side but particularly to the southwest may indicate where more extensive elements had been removed. To the northwest, various small huts and structures (also mapped as ‘Extent of Area’) are presumed to be associated, as they had been removed by 1946 (S3). It is not known whether any element of the site still survives today.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 30 November 2009.