Contemporary records state, “Spigot mortar position. Front of garden, 3, Hillcrest, Abberton”. The short row of cottages on the E side of Mersea Road are Hillcrest Cottages and No 3 is the northernmost of a semi-detached pair. From here, a spigot mortar would have had an unobstructed view northwards along Mersea Road, guarding the crossroads against an attack from the Colchester direction.<1>

Nothing of it can be made out on an aerial photograph taken in April 1946 and nothing is apparent now. However, since the end of the war the front fences along this stretch have been dropped back from the roadside and it is very possible that the spigot mortar emplacement was sited where the grass verge now is, outside the property.

See also <2> & <3>.