NHER 38969 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two coastal defences

December 2004. Norfolk NMP.
A group of World War Two coastal defences are visible as earthworks, cropmarks and structures on aerial photographs taken from 1940 onwards (S1-4). They lie on each side of two gun emplacements (or possibly a gun emplacement and a pillbox) located at TG 2914 3826. Post-war aerial photographs together with modern maps indicate that almost the entire area of the site has now eroded to become part of the cliff face.

In 1940 (S1-2) a small, earthwork gun emplacement is visible at the western end of the site, at TG 2900 3840. To the east, at TG 2914 3830, a possible slit trench can be seen to either side of a path which runs along the cliff edge. On the cliff face to the north of this, a group of possible emplacements or other concrete structures may be visible on aerial photographs taken in 1942 (S5). In the absence of a stereo pair for this part of the photograph, however, it is impossible to tell whether these are real features and consequently they have not been mapped. By 1946 (S3), an earthwork gun emplacement and a concrete emplacement or pillbox are visible, situated on a field boundary at TG 2914 3826. An elongated bank, surrounded by a ditch, at TG 2906 3834, is probably a turf-covered structure, perhaps a sunken shelter, emplacement or bunker. To its west is a possible weapons pit. Vegetation marks across the site may indicate the recent removal of barbed wire.
(S1-5)
S. Tremlett (NMP), 17 December 2004.