Monument record LWT 307 - World War Two gun battery

July 2014. Lothingland, Lowestoft and North Suffolk Coast and Heaths National Mapping Programme.
The site of World War Two gun battery is visible on aerial photographs (S1-S2), partially camouflaged within areas of rough ground, cultivation and extraction. The site consists of at least two angular ‘lozenge’ shaped gun emplacements that are likely to have contained field guns. An additional three rectangular structures are suggested by the aerial photographs, although they are not as conclusive, as the more characteristic gun houses, and may be temporary shelters. Similar batteries in other parts of the country were constructed out of sandbags filled with concrete and with a concrete roof placed on the top (S3). It is impossible to tell from the aerial photographs whether these are of a comparable construction, although they do appear to be of fairly temporary construction, judging by the appearance of the site immediately post-war. This site, along with the nearby LWT 306, formed a line of defence on the south side of Lowestoft. Another two arrangements of guns (LWT 245, LWT 280) protect the north. It is worth noting that these structures are not constriucted by July 1941 (S4).
S. Horlock (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 23rd July 2014.