Record Details

NHER Number:32627
Type of record:Monument
Name:World War Two spigot mortar base

Summary

The base of a World War Two spigot mortar gun emplacement, part of the anti invasion defences of 1940.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 3387 3419
Map Sheet:TG33SW
Parish:BACTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Common 1940 spigot mortar gun emplacement buried in side of hedgerow 10m from pill box (survey No. H1-12). Corrugated iron shuttering marks and rough finish.
Survey No. H1-11.
Information from [1]. See record form in file.
D.Walker (NLA) August 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.. 1995. KHH 20A.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
---Correspondence: [restricted]. 2018. Email regarding suspected heritage crime at Bacton. 22 April.

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