NHER 20340 (Monument record) - World War Two pillbox

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Summary

A surviving World War Two defensive structure, possibly a Home Guard shelter. It is located a short distance from a type 22 pillbox (NHER 20339).

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG40NW
Civil Parish HALVERGATE, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Map

Defensive structure?
Brick shed with concrete roof; rectangular, no windows, door to west.
Two slits with sliding metal shutters to east.
Resembles a Home Guard type of pillbox but is very near to conventional pillbox NHER 20339 towards which the slits point.
E. Rose (NAU), 7 May 1984.

December 1999. Still present and intact.
E.Rose (NLA), 3 December 1999.

April 2007. Norfolk NMP
A surviving World War Two structure, possibly a Home Guard shelter, is visible on aerial photographs (S1-S3). The grid reference for this structure has been amended to TG 4259 0696. The structure is rectangular in plan with a flat concrete roof. It is possible that it is a Home Guard shelter, but this is not certain. It lies 94m to the west of a Type 22 pillbox (NHER 20339).
J. Albone (NMP), 30 April 2007

November 2016.
The base of a demolished blast wall is visible just outside the door to the west.
The building is currently in use as a horse shelter.
D. Gurney (HES), 1 November 2016.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1606 3024-5 27-JUN-1946 (NHER TG 4206A-B).
  • <S2> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1972. OS/72056 88-9 24-MAR-1972.
  • <S3> Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1989. NHER TG 4206A (NLA 233/DPG6) 04-JUL-1989.

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Record last edited

May 26 2020 3:54PM

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