Record Details
| NHER Number: | 34348 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | World War Two spigot mortar emplacement |
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Summary
A World War Two spigot mortar emplacement survives as an extant earthwork and structure. It has been identified on the ground and is also visible on aerial photographs taken in the 1940s. It was probably an outer defence for the military camp NHER 49672 approximately 100m to its south.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 3963 9719 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM39NE |
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| Parish: | RAVENINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Mortar spigot overgrown in pit; some angle irons of revetment survive.
Part of important defensive perimeter with 17499 and 34346 and 7.
Site form in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 15 April 1999.
July 2007. Norfolk NMP.
The World War Two spigot mortar emplacement described above is visible as a structure and earthwork on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TM 3964 9718.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 17 July 2007.
Monument Types
- SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENT (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1716 3161-2 06-SEP-1946 (NMR). |
Related records
| 49672 | Part of: World War Two military site outside Raveningham Park (Monument) |
| 34347 | Related to: World War Two Spigot mortar base (Monument) |
| 34346 | Related to: World War Two spigot mortar emplacement (Monument) |
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