Record Details

NHER Number:33831
Type of record:Monument
Name:World War Two military site

Summary

A World War Two military compound is visible on aerial photographs taken in 1946. The site included two gun emplacements and a bunker located between them.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 0894 0740
Map Sheet:TG00NE
Parish:BARNHAM BROOM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

January 1946. RAF aerial photography.
Compound with two circular structures which are gun emplacements, with one small trench-like bunker between them.
See (S1).
Sketch plotted on 1:10,000 extract.
B. Cushion (NLA) 15 September 1998.

Monument Types

  • BUNKER (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
  • GUN EMPLACEMENT (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

<S1>Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. TG 00/TG 0806/B.

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