NHER 39191 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two slit trench

January 2005. Norfolk NMP.
A World War Two slit trench is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs (S1-2), centred at TG 3069 3712. It is visible as a fresh earthwork on aerial photographs taken in 1940 (S1). Although it lies within a wider network of World War Two coastal defences, its siting does not appear to be particularly strategic and it was perhaps excavated as a training exercise. Two other slit trenches, one only partially excavated, lie to its east and west (NHER 39192 and 39190 respectively), and these might also be practice trenches. A closely spaced group of trenches (part of NHER 39109) at Mundesley Holiday Camp is a clearer indication that military training was being carried out in the vicinity. The trench described here has the zigzag outline typical of World War Two slit trenches. A small pit is also visible. Later aerial photographs and modern maps indicate that the earthwork was levelled by 1952 and subsequently built over.
(S1-2)
S. Tremlett (NMP), 10 January 2005.