Record Details
| NHER Number: | 41600 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Remains of probable World War two Coastal Artillery searchlight battery |
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Summary
The ruins of a World War Two building were noted in sand dunes in 2004. It was probably part of a Coastal Artillery searchlight battery.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 50147 19107 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG51NW |
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| Parish: | WINTERTON ON SEA, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK |
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Full description
May-November 2004. Norfolk Rapid Coastal Zone Archaeological Survey.
Inter-tidal survey (Environmental Zone 22), Context 256:
The ruins of a Second World War building was found on and within the dune face. The ruins included sections of walling, loose bricks and concrete fragments. Some of the bricks were stamped ‘LBC PHORPRES 6’.
See assessment report (S1) for further details.
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.421).
J. Allen (NLA), 26 April 2005. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 July 2019.
February 2006. Norfolk NMP.
The location and character of the building material described above suggests that it probably derived from the structures and buildings that formed part of a World War Two Coastal Artillery Searchlight Battery and its associated defences (NHER 42454). The Type 24 pillbox mapped at TG 5013 1910 is the most likely candidate.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 1 February 2006.
Monument Types
- BUILDING (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Associated Finds
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Robertson, D., Crawley, P., Barker, A., and Whitmore, S. 2005.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. |
Related records
| 42454 | Part of: World War Two Coastal Artillery Searchlight Battery and other defences on Winterton Dunes (Monument) |
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