NHER 38931 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two bomb craters

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Summary

A line of three World War Two bomb craters is visible as a series of earthworks on aerial photographs. The earthworks look fresh on vertical aerial photographs taken in June 1942 and had probably been created recently. It is possible that the bombs were intended for the railway line which ran to the north and east of the site (NHER 13585), and perhaps for the (presumably associated) buildings which lay approximately 225m to the east of the bomb craters. It is equally possible however, that the bombs were intended for a more distant target or that they were dropped at random by an enemy bomber before it made its return journey across the North Sea.

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Map sheet TG23NE
Civil Parish TRIMINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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November 2004. Norfolk NMP.
A line of three bomb craters is visible as a series of earthworks on aerial photographs (S1), from TG 2730 3864 to TG 2738 3864. Given that the earthworks appear very fresh, there can only have been a short period of time between the bombs being dropped and the photographs being taken on 19 June 1942. The two westernmost craters are just visible as an earthwork on the edge of an aerial photograph taken in 1943 (S2), but all three appear to have been levelled by ploughing by 1946 (e.g. S3).

The line of craters is visible for a length of approximately 75m, and they are spaced roughly 30m apart. The craters measure up to 7m in diameter.
(S1-3)
S. Tremlett (NMP), 1 November 2004.

  • <S1> Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1942. RAF AC/59 58-9 19-JUN-1942 (NMR).
  • <S2> Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1943. RAF AC/161 5068 04-JAN-1943 (NMR).
  • <S3> Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1571 3189-90 07-JUN-1946 (NMR).

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Mar 22 2021 9:25AM

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