NHER 58284 (Monument record) - Second World War pit or emplacement

Previously allocated duplicate NHER number 56130 in error.

August 2011. Walkover Survey.
Rapid earthwork identification survey.
Oval depression measuring 9 x 7m and up to 1m deep with spoil banks of 2m spread and an entrance from the north. At least 5 small sub-rectangular infilled depressions measuring 1m square were observed within 10m of the central feature. It is possible that these features are of World War Two military origin and could be the former position of a sunken camouflaged hut/tent position with possible associated single person trenches.
See report (S1) for further details.
S. Howard (HES), 15 September 2011.

February 2017. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The pit or depression described above is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs, such as (S2), and lidar imagery (S3). It is one of four such pits located in close proximity to each other (see too NHER 56144), together with a slit trench; their size is such that they could perhaps be emplacements from an anti-aircraft battery, or have been used for training related to such sites. There is no evidence of a tent or hut within the pit, as suggested above; an L-shaped trench mapped 18m to the west (recorded as part of NHER 61543), could be one of the associated trenches. The pits form part of a much more extensive spread of Second World War activity, recorded as NHER 61543.
The mapped extent of this site has been refined [1].
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 10 February 2017.