NHER 16023 (Monument record) - World War Two military headquarters

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Summary

The site of a World war Two bunker that is recorded to have been the generator house and crew shelter for the Salthouse Heath dummy airfield (NHER 13566) . Cables ran along the hedges and under the coast road towards the decoy approx 1.5km to the west.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG04SE
Civil Parish KELLING, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Southwest of Warborough Hill. Defensive position, World War Two.
Two underground chambers aligned north to south; both arch-vaulted (like a Nissen hut). Northern chamber of concrete with two concrete footings inside and spyhole towards sea, also pipework, suggesting some type of large telescope stood here. Southern chamber lined with corrugated iron, door to south. East to west passage divides chambers, with high flat concrete roof. Door to east. Outside each door a freestanding slab of concrete 2.2m (7 feet) high cast on corrugated iron. Whole under earth mound. Very good condition.
E. Rose (NAU), 23 April 1980.

October 2002. Norfolk NMP.
World War Two military underground headquarters visible above ground as a mound on 1946 RAF aerial photographs (S1). The oblong mound is 16m by 7.5m and centred on TG 0879 4278. Several concrete structures or walls are visible. A possible entrance is marked by a concrete area at TG 0879 4277, measuring 2m by 1.5m. Another concrete wall is visible to the east of the mound at TG 0880 4278, measuring 2.5m by 0.5m. To the northern end of the mound is another concrete slab at TG 0880 3278, measuring 2m by 0.5m. To the outside of the mound are two 1m square features which look like concrete. No height to these features can be discerned, so it is possible that these are the bases of structures that have since been removed, they possibly related to the defence of the site.
S. Massey (NMP), 25 March 2003.

January 2006. Norfolk NMP.
This bunker is recorded to have been the generator house and crew shelter for the Salthouse Heath dummy airfield. Cables ran along the hedges and under the coast road towards the decoy approx 1.5km to the west (NHER 13566) (S2).
S. Massey (NMP), 10 January 2007.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1636 4416-7 09-JUL-1946 (NMR).
  • <s2> Monograph: Fairhead, H.. 1996. Huby Fairhead's Decoy Sites. Wartime Deception in Norfolk and Suffolk.. pp 18-19.

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Record last edited

Feb 23 2021 8:03AM

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