NHER 30781 (Monument record) - Second World War spigot mortar emplacement

Mortar spigot.
See (S1).
Comp. E.Rose 1994

Source [2] states that the local Home Guard members tell him this was in fact a support for an anti-tank rocket launcher, not a mortar, in case German tanks landed at Brancaster.
E. Rose (NLA) 24 May 2000.

June 2025. Northwest Norfolk Aerial Investigation and Mapping (AI&M) Project.
A Second World War spigot mortar emplacement visible as an extant structure and earthwork on aerial photographs taken in 1945 (S2) is probably the same as the spigot mortar emplacement described above. There is a discrepancy of approximately 36m between the previously recorded location of the emplacement (at TF 7673 3716) and its location as mapped by the project, but the latter appears more likely to be correct. The site is probably also the same as the spigot mortar emplacement recorded approximately 48m to the north by the Historic England Archive (S3), on the basis of information derived from the Defence of Britain database. Again, it seems likely that all the records relate to the same emplacement, and that the location mapped by the project from the 1940s aerial photographs is the most accurate.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 18 June 2025.