Contemporary records state, “Spigot mortar position. Field at rear of ‘Milldene’.”<1> This is just one of three very similar entries all documenting a spigot mortar emplacement on land belonging to “Milldene”.

This house still survives although in a much altered setting to that of wartime Tiptree. It stands on the N side of Ransom Road surrounded by houses on all sides. It can be seen on pre-war OS maps and an aerial photograph taken in April 1946 that it then stood amid fields with no more than two houses and a few barns around.

It is now impossible to say which field the spigot mortar emplacement was in and the NGR above is that of the house itself.<2>

See also <3> & <4>.