Monument record ORF 076 - A military machine shop of World War II date

A structure of World War II date is visible on aerial photographs of 1945 onwards, centred on circa TM43854902 on King's Marshes, Orfordness, Orford parish (S1). The structure has been identified by Angus Wainwright, the archaeologist of the National Trust who now own the Ness, as a World War II machine shop associated with the experimental research base (see ORF 021). (S2). Structure No. B6 (S3).

Survey 1 took place in July 2016 and recorded features along the shingle shelf of Orford Beach, including the Coastguard watch house beside the lighthouse, a concrete structure of unknown function and a ground marker used in ballistics trails. Survey 2 took place in September 2016 and focused on recording the visible remains of the First World War Prisoner of War (POW) camp. Survey 3 took place in June 2017 and created Historic England Level 1/Level 2 record of the First World War Barrack/Stores and the First World War/1950s canteen. Survey 4 in March and June 2018 used the CITiZAN app to start creating a Historic England Level 1 record for all buildings and building remains on Orford Ness. A total of 123 new features were added to CITiZAN's publicly accessible, interactive web based map and 44 National Trust HBSMR records were updated with images and/or text. Survey 5, a CITiZAN/MOLA survey, took place in December 2019 and January 2020. This created photographic and drawn records of the Coastguard watch house and a photographic the nearby concrete structure. The concrete structure collapsed due to coastal erosion not long after (S4).