NHER 39153 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two slit trenches

Two probable slit trenches dating to World War Two are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs. They lie within the grounds of a house (now known as Jen-Bar Lodge), close to a trackway which leads westwards from Stow Hill to the road between Knapton and Mundesley (the B1145) and the former Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway (NHER 13585). They appear to be relatively fresh earthworks in 1940, indicating that they were only recently constructed. Although extensive World War Two defences have been identified in the surrounding area (e.g. NHER 39109), the relative isolation of these features, on a minor trackway, suggests that they might represent training activity rather than an integrated element of the coastal defences.