NHER 42527 (Monument record) - A World War Two pillbox and a pair of spigot mortar emplacements within the Long Belt

SITE WAS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED UNDER NHER 11788 (context 19).

October 1995. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey No. RDS-60 and RDS-85. 250m south of NHER 42526.
World War Two type 22 pillbox, and spigot mortar base found 20m to south.
See record form (S1) in file.
J. Allen (NLA), 8 August 2006.

February 2006. Norfolk NMP.
The type 22 pillbox and spigot mortar emplacement known from the Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey are visible on aerial photographs (S1-S2). A further spigot mortar emplacement was also visible; one is 13m from the pillbox and the second is another 12m to the south. It seems likely that it is the southern spigot base that was recovered by the Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey. The site is centred on TG 5255 0118 and the pillbox was located at TG 5255 0120. An additional structure is visible next to the pillbox on the 1980s aerial photographs, however this is not clearly visible on aerial photographs from 1947 and therefore it was mapped (S3), although it is possible that it was camouflaged at that point.
S. Massey (NMP), 15 February 2006.