Record Details
| NHER Number: | 32709 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | World War Two pillbox on Telegraph Hill |
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Summary
A type FW3/22 pillbox is visible on aerial photographs at Telegraph Hill, about 1250 metres east of East Harling. This is a common type of pillbox. The bricks have been removed from the concrete structure.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 0079 8621 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM08NW |
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| Parish: | HARLING, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Common, 1940 type 22 pill box, situated in middle of field. Stripped of bricks.
See (S1).
D. Walker (NLA) August 1996.
February 2010. Norfolk NMP. Erroneously recorded under NHER 53389.
A type FW3/22 pillbox is visible on aerial photographs at Telegraph Hill, about 1250 metres east of East Harling, (S2)-(S4) centred on TM 0079 8621.
The pillbox was still visible on aerial photographs in 1975 (S4). It is described in the NMR record (1418359) as being built of concrete and brick shuttering, constructed in the period of 1940/1941. Most of the shuttering was removed postwar.
At the time of a field visit in January 1995 the condition of the pillbox was described as fair (S1, S5).
E. Bales (NMP), 10 February 2010.
Monument Types
- PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
- PILLBOX (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Recording Form: [various]. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey Recording Form. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey. |
| <S2> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: USAAF. 1944. US/7PH/GP/LOC276 5036-7 18-APR-1944 (NMR). |
| <S3> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF CPE/UK/1801 3085-6 25-OCT-1946 (NMR). |
| <S4> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1975. OS/75177 133-4 06-JUN-1975 (NMR). |
| <S5> | Website: Council for British Archaeology. 2002. Defence of Britain database. http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/specColl/dob/index.cfm. |
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