Record Details
| NHER Number: | 17732 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Royal Observer Corps lookout post |
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Summary
A post World War Two Royal Observer Corp lookout post. It comprises an octagonal brick tower and a complex of underground rooms.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 2476 3257 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG23SW |
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| Parish: | ANTINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
November 1981.
Royal Observer Corps Lookout.
Octagonal brick tower now about 2.5m high. Iron ladder to top (ruined). Nearby a deep underground shelter with counterweighted entrance.
Apparently post World War Two. Probably one of those set up at the time of the Berlin crisis and later abandoned. Yes, the underground rooms were added after 1953.
E. Rose (NLA), 5 November 1981.
Monument Types
- ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS SITE (Cold War - 1945 AD to 1992 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
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