Contemporary records state, “Ammunition shelter. Rear of Gate Poultry Farm, Abberton”. Ammunition shelters were typically built to house the bombs of a spigot mortar emplacement, usually located within a 100 yards of such a site, to its rear.<1>

A similar location to this is given for a spigot mortar emplacement in “O.S. No.68, Gate Poultry Farm, Abberton” (SMR 21105) and it is probable that the ammunition shelter was built to support this. Various buildings and structures can be made out in and around Field No OS 68 on an aerial photograph taken in April 1946 but none are clear enough for a positive identification. The NGR quoted above is, therefore, what may be the most likely of these structures standing, at that time, some 50 yards to the N of the apparent spigot mortar emplacement. However, the photographic identification of both of these sites is somewhat tenuous although the general area of both is thought to be correct.<2>

See also <3> & <4>.