NHER 38922 (Monument record) - World War Two trenches and weapons pits

October 2004. Norfolk NMP.
A group of World War Two slit trench and weapons pit earthworks were cut into Roundabout hill and are visible on aerial photographs (S1). These were probably dug as part of military training exercises. Similar features are visible on the nearby Six Acre Hill (NHER 18327).

The site is centred on TG 2020 4180. The longest of the trenches would appear to be 35m long, however most of the trenches visible consist of quite short ditch and pit sections dug in a loosely linear arrangement. At TG 2021 4179 is a larger pit, up to 9m long, although this may be related to recent extraction rather than the surrounding military fieldworks.

These earthworks have since been plough levelled. The cropmarks of a long zigzag ditch like feature, running around the southern edge of the hill, may be visible on BKS vertical aerial photographs from 1988 (S2). However this feature is not consistent with how the trenches look in 1946 (S1) and was therefore not mapped.
S. Massey (NMP), 26 October 2004