Record Details
| NHER Number: | 54721 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | World War Two searchlight battery site |
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Summary
A World War Two searchlight battery site comprising a diagnostic trefoil bank feature, along with related structures, including a previously recorded pillbox (NHER 32714) is visible to the west of Bunwell Road, Spooner Row.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 0936 9674 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM09NE |
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| Parish: | WYMONDHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
May 2012. Norfolk NMP.
A World War Two searchlight battery site comprising a diagnostic trefoil bank feature, along with related structures, is visible to the west of Bunwell Road, Spooner Row. The trefoil bank feature is centred on TM 0932 9675, between two probable standard type 22 pillboxes, one of which has been recorded previously (NHER 32714) and is still visible on photographs from 1970 (S2). Further structures and possible anti-tank cubes/obstruction are visible at the northern entrance to the field. Another possible structure, which may be related to the searchlight battery, has also been mapped in the field to the south, at TM 0936 9660. It is possible that this structure may have been related to agricultural activity, however, since the only photographs on which it was visible date to 1946.
E. Bales (NMP), 1st May 2012.
Monument Types
- PILLBOX (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)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1634 1125-6 09-JUL-1946 (NMR). |
| <S2> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1970. OS/70282 182-3 31-JUL-1970 (NMR). |
Related records
| 32714 | Parent of: World War Two pillbox (Monument) |