NHER 35436 (Building record) - Cold War ROC monitoring post

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Summary

The surface features and compound on this site were in use between 1959 and 1991 and are still intact, as is an Orlit post which stands nearby.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TM19NW
Civil Parish WYMONDHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

1959-1991 Surface features and compound intact.
Orlit B stands nearby.
See (S1).
E. Rose, July 2000.

2001.
Cold War MPP assessment identifies this as a site of national importance, and it is to be listed or scheduled.
See file for details and report on CD ROM.
D. Gurney (NLA), 27 December 2001.

March 2012. Norfolk NMP.
The external/surface components of this ROC post are visible on aerial photographs, for example (S2).
S. Horlock (NMP), 07 March 2012.

  • --- Designation: Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 1975-?. Norfolk Archaeological Unit Recommendation for Scheduling. Recommendation. NHER18080.
  • --- Monograph: Cocroft, W.. 2001. Cold War Monuments: An Assessment by the Monuments Protection Programme..
  • <S1> Article in Serial: Catford, N. 1999. Royal Observer Corps Underground Posts in Norfolk. Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society Journal. Vol 6, No 4, pp 59-70. pp 59ff.
  • <S2> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1972. OS/72034 096-7 22-MAR-1972 (NMR).

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Record last edited

Jul 24 2018 8:59AM

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