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Spigot mortar base.
(Source: Field Visit )
Large spigot mortar pedestal by footbridge over River Colne.
(Source: Field Visit 2002/06/14)


      

        Type of site
        SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENT
      

      

        Location
        By S bank of River Colne, just to W of viaduct, Wakes Colne.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Wakes Colne, Essex, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TL 89645 28395
             (Scale: 1:2500
              )
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Concrete, 
            Steel
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Osborne, Mike (Defence of Britain Project)
      

      

        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.  

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENT - S0015691
         

     (1) - external view (photocopy)  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0015691

      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 2002/06/14 

            Construction, After 1941/05 

            Field Visit, By 2001 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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