NHER 27491 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two road block

July 2005. Norfolk NMP.
Two probable anti tank cubes or concrete blocks, perhaps part of a World War Two roadblock or tank trap, are visible on aerial photographs taken in 1944 (S1) and (S2), centred at TG 5223 0874. They lie on either side of a railway bridge (now destroyed; part of NHER 13581)) and may have formed part of a larger blockade in place at an earlier stage in the war. They had both been removed by August 1945 (S3). It should be noted that their identification as anti tank cubes is not certain, and they might instead be part of the revetment for the bridge. The location of the northern block, however, partway up the railway embankment, and the apparent removal of both blocks at the end of the war, supports their interpretation as war related features.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 18 July 2005.