Record Details
NHER Number: | 53594 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Name: | World War Two bomb crater |
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Summary
A World War Two bomb crater is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs taken in 1946.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TG 1383 0801 |
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Map Sheet: | TG10NW |
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Parish: | GREAT MELTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
May 2010. Norfolk NMP.
A World War Two bomb crater is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs (S1)-(S2), centred at TG 1382 0801. The crater has been mapped schematically; it is visible surrounded by a ‘halo’ of upcast material which has not been mapped by the NMP. There may have been further craters in the area but none of the possible examples visible on the aerial photographs (such as the scar or depression at TG 1359 0789 to the southwest) is certain enough to warrant mapping. The crater could be related to the pillbox (NHER 32483) visible 330m to the east; this may have had an anti-aircraft gun mounted on its roof and could have been the intended target for the bomb.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 17 May 2010.
Monument Types
- BOMB CRATER (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
<S1> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 3G/TUD/UK/70 5137-8 28-FEB-1946 (NMR). |
<S2> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1606 2086-7 27-JUN-1946 (NMR). |
Related records
32483 | Related to: World War Two pillbox (Monument) |