Record Details
| NHER Number: | 32479 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | World War Two anti-tank cubes |
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Summary
World War Two anti-tank cubes blocking the road from the saltmarsh and Salthouse village, visible on RAF aerial photographs from 1946. These were also encountered during the Coastal Survey conducted by the NAU in 2004.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 0780 4384 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG04SE |
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| Parish: | SALTHOUSE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Common anti-tank blocks. Date 1940.
Survey No. D2-5.
Information from [1]. See record form in file.
D.Walker (NLA), July 1996.
October 2002. Norfolk NMP.
World War Two anti-tank cubes blocking the road from the saltmarsh and Salthouse village on RAF aerial photographs from 1946 (S1). Two cubes are positioned 1.5m apart at TG 0781 4384. The tank cubes can now be found within the field to the west.
S. Massey (NMP), 21 March 2003.
December 2004. Norfolk Rapid Coastal Zone Archaeological Survey.
Land-based survey; Cley, Salthouse and Kelling fresh-marshes, Context 19:
One of three groups of two concrete anti-tank blocks. The others are NHER 32464 and NHER 32481.
See assessment report (S2) for further details.
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.421).
A. Cattermole (NLA), 6 December 2007. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 July 2019.
Monument Types
- TANK TRAP (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1701 3041-2 27-AUG-1946 (NMR). |
| <S2> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Robertson, D., Crawley, P., Barker, A., and Whitmore, S. 2005. Norfolk Rapid Coastal Zone Archaeological Survey. Assessment Report and Updated Project Design. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 1045. |
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