NHER 53374 (Monument) - Site of probable World War Two defence and contemporary activity

June 2010. Norfolk NMP.
A probable World War Two defence (a gun emplacement or similar), together with evidence of contemporary activity to its south, the nature of which is uncertain, is visible as an earthwork and disturbed ground on aerial photographs (S1)-(S2), centred at TG 2258 0564. The site lay immediately to the north of a former livestock market, seemingly abandoned at this date. The possible emplacement, sited close to Hall Road, was presumably intended to guard the approach to Norwich from the south. The various signs of other activity (principally disturbed ground, mapped only by extent) may indicate the use of the area for military training or sport, and perhaps also the presence of bomb craters (evident as light-coloured circular patches at the eastern end of the site in 1942).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 21 June 2010.