NHER 27616 (Monument record) - World War Two bomb crater

August 2005. Norfolk NMP.
A World War Two bomb crater is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs (S1 and S2), centred at TG 5068 0887. It forms an alignment with a line of craters visible 160m to its south (NHER 27594) and is similar in size to the smaller craters mapped as part of that site, suggesting that it may have been created during the same event. Another possible crater (marked on modern maps as a pond) is visible between the two sites, at TG 5069 0881 but in this case the ‘crater’ has no depth on the wartime photographs and its appearance is similar to modern agricultural marks in the surrounding area; consequently it has not been mapped by the NMP. The mapped crater has been levelled since the end of the war but is still visible as a cropmark (S3).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 31 August 2005.