Thesaurus Term/Concept: SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENT

Identifier 87142
Class MONUMENT TYPE
Status Preferred
Index? Yes
Scope Note A pit or emplacement surrounding a concrete pedestal, or 'thimble', which was used to mount a spigot mortar. Deployed by the Home Guard during WWII as an anti invasion measure.

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Instances/Examples (30)

Context Record
Monument Type MKE91121 Former site of a Second World War spigot mortar, Frith Cottage, Dover Road (Monument)
Monument Type MKE16404 Land defence: spigot mortar (1940) (Monument)
Monument Type MKE91322 Light anti-aircraft two-pounder gun then a spigot mortar, South Foreland Battery (Monument)
Monument Type MKE90781 Second World War spigot mortar and trench works, South Wing, Hog's Bush (Monument)
Monument Type MKE90779 Second World War spigot mortar mounting, Hog's Bush (Monument)
Monument Type MKE112141 Second World War spigot mortar, Swingate Airfield, St Margaret's-at-Cliffe (Monument)
Monument Type MKE41861 Shorne Hill Second World War spigot mortar emplacement, Shorne (Building)
Monument Type MKE42127 Spigot mortar (Monument)
Monument Type MKE42128 Spigot mortar (Monument)
Monument Type MKE16393 Spigot Mortar (Site of) , Bastion No.1, Sheerness (Monument)
Monument Type MKE17289 Spigot Mortar Emplacement - pedestal (Monument)
Monument Type MKE39320 SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENT (Monument)
Monument Type MKE39439 SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENT (Monument)
Monument Type MKE39440 SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENT (Monument)
Monument Type MKE39443 SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENT (Monument)
Monument Type MKE39444 SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENT (Monument)
Monument Type MKE39457 SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENT (Monument)
Monument Type MWX19314 Spigot mortar emplacement at Grain Fort, Isle of Grain (Monument)
Monument Type MKE16273 Spigot mortar emplacement, Chatham Lines (Monument)
Monument Type MKE39321 Spigot mortar emplacement, Hadlow (Monument)
Monument Type MKE16269 Spigot mortar emplacement, Inner Lines, Chatham (Monument)
Monument Type MKE16271 Spigot mortar emplacement, Inner Lines, Chatham (Monument)
Monument Type MKE16270 Spigot mortar emplacement, near Great Lines, Chatham (Monument)
Monument Type MKE9226 Spigot mortar emplacement, shorne (Monument)
Monument Type MKE42236 Spigot Mortar Pedestal (Building)
Monument Type MKE42235 Spigot Mortar Pedestal (Monument)
Monument Type MKE111684 The Shoulder of Mutton Battery, Dover Castle (Building)
Monument Type MKE16286 Trenches/spigot mortar emplacement, near Cinque Port Marshes, Gillingham (Monument)
Monument Type MWX43669 WWII military site, Walmer (Monument)
Monument Type MWX43124 WWII structural gun pit located/spigot mortar emplacement seaward of Prince Edward's Promenade, Ramsgate (Monument)