Tilbury Fort Spigot Mortar Emplacement


An emplacement for a 6 inch gun with an shell store below. In the original gun pit is mounted a replica (from 1993) World War II 29mm Blacker Bombard "spigot mortar".
Located at the south east corner of Tilbury Fort, Essex.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilbury_Fort
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/tilbury-fort/ https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1021092

Annotation information very kindly supplied by Chris Kolonko:
https://chriskolonko.wordpress.com/
https://ukswwh.wordpress.com/

1679 photos taken in September 2022 with a Sony a7R III and processed in Agisoft Metashape.