Record Details

NHER Number:30781
Type of record:Monument
Name:World War Two spigot mortar emplacement

Summary

A spigot mortar emplacement from World War Two.

Images

  • Docking Spigot mortar thimble  © C. Kolonko

Location

Grid Reference:TF 7673 3716
Map Sheet:TF73NE
Parish:DOCKING, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Mortar spigot.
See (S1).
Comp. E.Rose 1994

Source [2] states that the local Home Guard members tell him this was in fact a support for an anti-tank rocket launcher, not a mortar, in case German tanks landed at Brancaster.
E. Rose (NLA) 24 May 2000.

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>Unpublished Document: 1995. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey.

Related records - none

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