The CC Trig Point bagger thread, now incorporating other interesting geographs

[biggs682]

New bike Martin? Not like you

I have had that for about 6 years in fact might even be longer , it doesn't come out to play very often though .

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Its very strange and the i have noticed that the big posh old houses have very few markings yet loads on old terraced cottages etc etc

And agree re style of chisel work in same areas

Some local older villages which have not had much re development seem to be void as well

I have referred to your spreadsheets on a couple of occasions but mostly just look when i am cycling along

I tried to figure it out at one location this afternoon, I stood at one on a building at a height of half a metre (wrong-higher) and I could see the idea of lining the next one (to the E, its a 3 way road junction) but too much rubbish etc built up at the side of the road where the mark is supposed to be 1 ft above ground level, the next mark to the NE, I can see again how it triangles, this location the bridge walls have been rebuilt = no mark..The N and NE ones have no line of sight though. Some in town areas show no sense at all but they must have had their reason. It worked, any surveyors out there can explain?.

 

[classic33]

I tried to figure it out at one location this afternoon, I stood at one on a building at a height of half a metre (wrong-higher) and I could see the idea of lining the next one (to the E, its a 3 way road junction) but too much rubbish etc built up at the side of the road where the mark is supposed to be 1 ft above ground level, the next mark to the NE, I can see again how it triangles, this location the bridge walls have been rebuilt = no mark..The N and NE ones have no line of sight though. Some in town areas show no sense at all but they must have had their reason. It worked, any surveyors out there can explain?.

BM's weren't for triagulation purposes. There's a street, Old Lane, where the marks are on the mill itself, but it had the railway on the other side of the road which was walled off. They had their own entrance to the sidings.

They were more for marking a height at a known location. Spot Heights came later.

 

[classic33]

Question Time
Any ideas on this

Approx 18 inches in height.
Square in shape, all four faces the same, recessed. Fairly "new", cast concrete.
The Top

A little over seven inches across the flats.
Set back about ten feet from the road.

Then there's these,

First thought, connected to the railways, thrown out. They appear at regular intervals, not always in order & often on retaining walls.

Anyone else come across these?

 

[classic33]

There's meant to be an old underground bunker by Wellingborough rugby club , I keep meaning to try and find

This one
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/60749

 

[biggs682]

This one
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/60749

Looks like same location

 

[Bobby Mhor]

BM's weren't for triagulation purposes. There's a street, Old Lane, where the marks are on the mill itself, but it had the railway on the other side of the road which was walled off. They had their own entrance to the sidings.

They were more for marking a height at a known location. Spot Heights came later.

I know, I was trying to apply the logic they used with trig points.
The example I mentioned, the NE one leads NE again ( the mark was gone) the next two marks NEE (are there) but they follow the line of the road(at high spots of the road. They would have been in sight of each other yet at the junction of the other main road which passes through the village, there is a total lack of marks at the junction, one at a church nowhere near the junction. Seems no logic at times,

 

[classic33]

What route would the road have taken, if it existed at the time.

 

[PeteXXX]

This one
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/60749

Looks like same location

Blimey!! How many times have I ridden past that, gasping from the climb up Hardwater..

In fact, I was within a hundred yards of it on todays ride, but I turned left towards Earls Barton.

 

[classic33]

Blimey!! How many times have I ridden past that, gasping from the climb up Hardwater..

In fact, I was within a hundred yards of it on todays ride, but I turned left towards Earls Barton.

View attachment 375562

There's a larger entrance shaft nearby.

 

[biggs682]

Blimey!! How many times have I ridden past that, gasping from the climb up Hardwater..

In fact, I was within a hundred yards of it on todays ride, but I turned left towards Earls Barton.

View attachment 375562

i have had one quick look and couldnt find it a few months ago

 

[PeteXXX]

I'll take my shovel...

 

[classic33]

I'll take my shovel...

Crowbar or bolt cutters, 'd be better.

 

[classic33]

Anyone bagged one of these yet?

http://www.roc-heritage.co.uk/posts-map.html

There must be something about this area!

I'm aware it's "Area 51" for the uk, but....

 

[Bobby Mhor]

What route would the road have taken, if it existed at the time.

The same as today.. Headed out into the wilds,
I met jungle

fought cougars

Used the GPS to find this
HERE

Hidden amongst a mass of Epilobium (Yon tall pink fluffy things)
Had one of the golf course greenkeepers give me the history of it over the 25 years he has worked there, welded shut to keep underage drinkers out.