NHER 38936 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two coastal defences

November 2004. Norfolk NMP.
World War Two coastal defences are visible as extant structures on aerial photographs (S1-3), centred at TG 2783 3897. Between September 1940 and June 1942 what appears to have been a pillbox was constructed at TG 2772 3907. This has been mapped as a circular structure but could have been polygonal in plan. It measures up to 4m in diameter. At TG 2782 3886 an emplacement, probably for a gun, was constructed by June 1942; this is not visible on aerial photographs taken in 1940 but as it was constructed within a hedge it may have been hidden. It was sub-oval in plan and measured approximately 7m long by 6m wide. Between the two a line of barbed wire is visible, also on aerial photographs from June 1942 (S1). This was laid out parallel to and approximately 60m inland of the contemporary cliff edge. At its western end this may have continued into a plantation; at its eastern edge it runs around the boundary of a garden or allotment before ending at the cliff edge.
By 1946 the features described above had been removed, although agricultural cropmarks visible on aerial photographs from that year (S2-3) reflect the former presence of the barbed wire. A possible slit trench, which appears to be a relatively fresh and therefore recent (or recently maintained) earthwork, had been added towards the eastern end of the barbed wire.
(S1-3)
S. Tremlett (NMP), 2 November 2004.

See NHER 41580 and report (S4) for material collected in 2004 Norfolk Rapid Coastal Survey, may be from this site.
J. Allen (NLA), 29 November 2005.