Record Details

NHER Number:32484
Type of record:Monument
Name:World War Two spigot mortar emplacement

Summary

This common 1940 spigot mortar gun emplacement is set in a bank just inside the park boundary. It is the only spigot mortar base in Norwich and as such must be protected. It was still surviving when visited in 2006.

Images

  • A World War Two spigot mortar base in Earlham.  © Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service

Location

Grid Reference:TG 1905 0824
Map Sheet:TG10NE
Parish:EARLHAM, NORWICH, NORFOLK

Full description

Common. 1940 spigot mortar gun emplacement set in bank just inside park boundary covering bridge. Only spigot mortar base in Norwich - must be protected.
Survey No. M3-1.
Information from [1]. See (S1) in file.
D. Walker (NLA) July 1996.

February 2004.
Still extant in good condition.
E. Rose (NLA) 17 February 2004.

January 2006.
Still extant.
E. Rose (NLA) 28 January 2006.

July 2010. Norfolk NMP.
The spigot mortar emplacement described above is visible on aerial photographs (S2-S4) during World War two and later. It is centred on TG 1905 0824. The central concrete spindle measures 1.4m in diameter, and is set within a trench measuring up to 3.8m in width.
E. Bales (NMP), 20 July 2010.

Monument Types

  • SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENT (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status

  • SHINE

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: Kent, P.. 1994. KHF 6 - 7.
---Unpublished Report: Hoggett, R. and Williamson, T. 2006. Forgotten Heritage: the landscape history of the Norwich suburbs. A pilot study.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Recording Form: [various]. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey Recording Form. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey.
<S2>Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/770 6226-7 06-SEPT-1945 (NMR).
<S3>Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1951. RAF 58/644 5188-9 20-APR-1951 (NMR).
<S4>Vertical Aerial Photograph: CUCAP. XXXX. CUCAP RC8A 137-8 28-NOV-XXXX (CUCAP).

Related records - none

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