Record Details

NHER Number:32515
Type of record:Monument
Name:World War Two spigot mortar base

Summary

A small rough concrete anti-tank mortar base, lying on its side on the beach. Built in about 1940, it was part of a network of anti-invasion defences of the time.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 1250 4365
Map Sheet:TG14SW
Parish:WEYBOURNE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Ruins of spigot mortar gun emplacement, date 1940. Smaller version of rough concrete, lying on side on beach.
Survey Number D2-49.
Information from [1]. See record form in file.
D.Walker (NLA), July 1996.

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: Kent, P.. 1994. KHE 1.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.

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