Record Details
| NHER Number: | 42453 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | World War Two minefield on Winterton Dunes |
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Summary
Two World War Two minefields are visible as ‘earthworks’ (actually lines of disturbed ground) on aerial photographs taken in 1940. They formed part of a continuous line of defences arrayed along this stretch of coastline, recorded to the northwest as NHER 42452 and southeast, where the defences become more dispersed, as NHER 28938 for example. On their landward side, the minefields protected an Emergency Coastal Battery (NHER 35863) and a radar station (NHER 35862). To their east lay the battery’s Coastal Artillery Searchlight (NHER 42454) and other defences.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 5003 1889 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG51NW |
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| Parish: | WINTERTON ON SEA, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK |
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Full description
January 2006. Norfolk NMP.
Two World War Two minefields are visible as lines of disturbed ground on aerial photographs taken in 1940 (S1)-(S6), between TG 4989 1954 and TG 5025 1824. They were the southernmost element of a line of minefields stretching along the sand dunes between Hemsby to the south and Horsey Gap to the north. They are visible as lines of disturbed ground, the extent of which has been mapped. On the earliest consulted aerial photographs of the site, taken in August 1940 (S1)-(S2), only the northern minefield is visible. The longer southern field had been laid by September of that year (S3)-(S5). The mines were removed after the war and no obvious traces of the site are visible on recent aerial photographs (S7). It should be noted that the minefields were often only partially visible on the consulted aerial photographs and that consequently some parts were sketched instead of being mapped from a rectified part of a photograph. In addition, due to a lack of suitable control points, photo rectification for this area was poor.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 31 January 2006.
Monument Types
- MINEFIELD (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Oblique Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1940. NMR TG 5019/5 (MSO 31014 2A/BR14/4 3610) 16-AUG-1940. |
| <S2> | Oblique Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1940. NMR TG 4919/51 (MSO 31014 2A/BR14/4 3611) 16-AUG-1940. |
| <S3> | Oblique Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1940. NMR TG 5018/5 (MSO 31022 26/BR14/15 4805) 19-SEP-1940. |
| <S4> | Oblique Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1940. NMR TG 4918/7-8 (MSO 31022 26/BR14/15 4806-7) 19-SEP-1940. |
| <S5> | Oblique Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1940. NMR TG 4919/53-4 (MSO 31022 26/BR14/15 4808-9) 19-SEP-1940. |
| <S6> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1940. RAF 268A/BR183 16-9 17-DEC-1940 (NMR). |
| <S7> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Environment Agency. 2002. EA 042 AF/02C/339 7047-50 22-JUL-2002 (EA). |
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