Fun with low-tech.

[hirez]

(And then somewhat less fun with computers.They'll be lovely when they're finished)

Flexifoil + SE cameraphone. As one might guess it was in flight-mode.

Comments

[bogwitch64]

Cool!

What's that ruin--circular thingy?

[jendama]

[hirez]

I believe a pillbox of some flavour. There are remains of another downslope, though that might have been a reservoir for the nearby cottages.

It was a lot less of a ruin when I/we first encountered the thing.

[bogwitch64]

Ah, WW 1 or 2, I presume. ?

[hirez]

I'm waiting for one of quercus or jarkman to pitch up with the facts of the matter, but I'm going to guess WWII.

[jarkman]

I've always been puzzled by that thing.

There used to be more of it, but there was no sign of anything military about it. No slots to shoot through or anything like that, but no windows either. Just plain brick walls.

But it's a funny shape, and if it were (say) an obsolete TV or radio repeater I would expect it to be a boring square.

It is on the very highest point of the hill, but I don't think it is the hill you would choose if you wanted coverage of anywhere populated.

So, puzzled.

[hirez]

Ah. Hm.

I imagine it wasn't a Starfish site.

I've had a Google with most of the names I can think of, and I've found nothing useful.

I wonder if it was a radar site?

[quercus]

Top of the hill above Redcot?

ROC WW2

[jendama]

[hirez]

Doubtful, since there isn't any sort of useful track/path to it. Brick-built and octagonal tends to mean pillbox or similar structure.