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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 |
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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
)
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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 |
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Adjacent sites | Another spigot mortar emplacement at TL 82588724. |
DOB site reference: | S0006455 |
Event |
Construction, After 1941/05 Field Visit, On 1995/08/13 |