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Spigot mortar base.
(Source: Field Visit 1999/03/15)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) |
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Location | On edge of firing range, on S side of Colchester, on a corner of Mersea Road |
Area |
Colchester, Essex, England |
Grid reference |
TM 006 230
(Scale: 1:50000
, 1992)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Good |
Materials | Concrete, Steel |
Recorder | Burden, Susannah |
Defence grouping |
Eastern Command: Corps and Command Stop Lines - One of three Eastern Command Corps stop lines, this one running from the River Colne in Essex via Wakes Colne and Bures, along the River Stour to Sudbury and Long Melford, and thence to Bury St. Edmunds and the River Lark at Mildenhall. Its final stretch (known now as the Command Line) was via Littleport along the line of the River Great Ouse to King's Lynn. Colchester nodal point - Defences of Colchester category 'A' nodal point in No.4 region. Cassini ref. M4443. [Source: List of Nodal Points in Eastern Command, 1940 - PRO WO 199/544]. |
Photographs | (3) - general views |
DOB site reference: | S0006837 |
Event |
Construction, After 1941/05 Field Visit, On 1999/03/15 |