NHER 43471 (Monument record) - World War Two bomb crater at Harfreys Industrial Estate, Southtown

May 2006. Norfolk NMP.
A probable World War Two bomb crater is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs (S1)-(S2), centred at TG 5200 0587. The intended target may have been the railway line that once lay 25m to the east (NHER 13575). As the feature was not a fresh earthwork in 1944, its identification as a bomb crater is not certain; it might instead be a modern pit or pond, for example. Its circular shape, however, indicates that it is most likely to have been a crater. Aerial photographs taken more recently (S3) and modern Ordnance Survey maps demonstrate that the site now underlies a road connecting Harfrey’s Road to the A12; the crater itself has presumably been levelled.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 2 May 2006.