NHER 27617 (Monument record) - World War Two bomb craters

August 2005. Norfolk NMP.
Four World War Two bomb craters are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs (S1) and (S2), in a line between TG 5028 0952 and TG 5055 0969. Their linear arrangement and similar size suggests that they were all probably created during the same attack. The intended target for the bombs might have been Great Yarmouth, or they may have been dropped, more or less at random, prior to an enemy plane making its return flight across the North Sea. More recent aerial photographs (e.g. (S3)) and modern maps indicate that most of the craters have been levelled, but one (at TG 5045 0963) corresponds with the location of a modern pond which presumably originated as the crater.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 31 August 2005.