NHER 21511 (Monument record) - World War Two and Cold War Royal Observer Corps post

Underground bunker at northwest corner of field.
Suggested as Observer Corps emplacement.
Information from Hales Survey.
E. Rose (NAU) 12 July 1985.

These bunkers date from after 1953.

Identification correct.
Set up February 1961, closed October 1968.
Surface features intact except for ventilation shafts. Some furniture but interior disordered.
Orlit A stands nearby in good condition.
See (S1).
E. Rose (NLA), July 2000.

July 2007. Norfolk NMP.
The Cold War Royal Observer Corps post described above is visible on aerial photographs, including (S2). As it is of post World War Two date, it is outside the scope of the NMP project, and consequently has not been mapped. A small group of features visible on photographs taken in 1945 (S3), however, centred at TM 3694 9824, may represent a World War Two observation post, a precursor to the Cold War site. The co-location of World War Two and Cold War ROC posts is not uncommon; see NHER 35435 at Winterton on Sea, for example, or NHER 35403 at West Caister. The features visible comprise, from west to east, a pit or trench surrounded on three sides by a bank, a pit or trench partially surrounded by a wall, and a square platform or flat-roofed structure.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 19 July 2007.

12 June 2025. Field Observation.
Briefly examined by S. Hickling (HES):
The condition of the surface structures appears to have declined, with much of the roof missing.
See photographs (S4).
P. Watkins (HES), 19 June 2025.