NHER 21552 (Monument record) - World War Two pillbox

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Summary

A pillbox, from World War Two.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF60SW
Civil Parish DOWNHAM MARKET, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Pill box.
Concrete with outer brick skin partly fallen.
Polygonal.
First noted by pillbox survey.
Grid ref by E. Rose (NAU) 18 July 1985.

See (S1) which adds:
Pillbox of unknown type, possibly destroyed during construction of Downham Market Southern Bypass.
Survey No. J3-2.
D. Walker (NLA) July 1996.

This would not have been destroyed by the construction of the bypass, but was marked on old mapping between two waterfilled pits.
New mapping shows no pits but two houses on the site.
Not yet visited to check if pillbox survives in garden.
E. Rose (NLA), 3 June 2004.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Unpublished Document: 1995. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey.

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Record last edited

Apr 10 2006 11:28AM

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