Record Details
| NHER Number: | 29464 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Cropmarks of World War Two searchlight battery, on Linger Hill |
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Summary
Aerial photographs from 1946 onwards show the cropmarks of a World War Two searchlight station at this location. Two concrete structures which may relate to pillboxes or other related buildings are also visible until at least 1950.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 9721 9199 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL99SE |
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| Parish: | SHROPHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
15 June 1989. NAU aerial photography.
Cropmark of World War Two searchlight station.
Also visible on RAF 1946 aerial photograph (Unit ref TL 99/K & copyneg print ref TL 9791 E/HC37).
M. Flitcroft (NLA) 1993.
See record form in file by source [1], who adds:
World War Two searchlight battery. Cropmarks revealed at TL 9730 9212. Concrete remains at TL 9725 9190. Demolished in 1950s.
Survey No. Q2-2.
D. Walker (NLA) July 1996.
October 2012. Norfolk NMP.
The centre of the site has been amended from TL 9730 9194 to TL 9726 9196 as a result of the NMP mapping.
Cropmarks of a searchlight battery are indeed visible on aerial photographs (S2-S7) in the diagnostic form of three conjoined circular features. The site itself is visible from 1944 (S1). At least two concrete structures are also extant on the photographs until at least 1950 (S6), sited at TL 9730 9184 and 9735 9186. It seems possible that at least one of these structures is a pillbox shape, although this is difficult to ascertain from the photographs. Two extents of area which seem to encompass all the related structures have been mapped, one containing the two possible pillbox structures centred on TL 9734 9185, and a second at the northwest corner of the site, centred on TL 9712 9209. Parchmarks in the latter area suggest former structures, but none of them were clear enough to map.
Cropmarks of tracks or roadways leading across the site have also been mapped.
E. Ford (NMP), 18 October 2012.
Monument Types
- PILLBOX? (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
- ROAD (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
- SEARCHLIGHT BATTERY (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
- STRUCTURE (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
- TRACKWAY (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Aerial Photograph: TL9791 A-D,E. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Slide: Various. Slide. |
| <S1> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: USAAF. 1944. US 7PH/GP/LOC 276 5041-2 18-APR-1944 (NMR). |
| <S2> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. NHER TL9791 E (RAF 1946) 09-MAR-1946. |
| <S3> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 3G/TUD/UK/101 6218-9 30-MAR-1946 (NMR). |
| <S4> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1634 2372-3 09-JUL-1946 (NMR). |
| <S5> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1947. RAF CPE/UK/1918 3175-6 09-JAN-1947 (NMR). |
| <S6> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1950. RAF 540/432 5094-5 11-OCT-1950 (NMR). |
| <S7> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D. NLA. 1989. NHER TL9791 F-K (NLA 223/DHN7-11) 15-JUN-1989. |
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