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Steel mortar mount pin on 6-sided pillar a metre high surrounded by wall 0.3m thick and a metre high [see PLAN]. Full of water and covered with vegetation. Sited, with adjacent spigot mortar emplacement, to guard what was then a ford over the river.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/08/13)


      

        Type of site
        SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENT
      

      

        Location
        On S bank of Little Ouse river, some 60m from a track/footbridge over the river at the Forestry Commission's St. Helen's picnic site at Santon, near Santon Downham.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Santon Downham, Suffolk, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TL 8245 8729
             (Scale: 1:25000
              )
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Concrete, 
            Steel
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Rain entry (Medium Term) 
Detail: Mortar pit becomes full of water and freezes in cold weather.

            Type: Plant growth (Long Term) 
Detail: Site overgrown.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Silverlock, R.A.
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Eastern Command: River Orwell - River Gt. Ouse Stop Line - Eastern Command line running from mouth of the River Orwell, via Ipswich, the River Gipping, Haughley, Tostock and the Little Ouse to Euston. Then via the Little Ouse to the Great Ouse. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (1) - plan of spigot mortar mounting (DIGITISED).

      

      

        Photographs
        
View of SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENT - S0006455
         

       		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Another spigot mortar emplacement at TL 82588724.

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0006455

      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, After 1941/05 

            Field Visit, On 1995/08/13 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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