I wish I could tell you all about it but every where I've looked I've drawn a blank. On the oldest maps there is a little building like a shepherds hut here but apart from a couple of bits of old wall round the back there is little trace of that. Every other obscure thing on this web site seems to be recognized by somebody who used to work on or in it and can give precious insights....I do enjoy a good mystery but will it be solved this time?
Location: Near where Laneside Rd meets Over Hill Rd if you look to your right you see a couple of rather odd things.
It's hiding in the trees and further to the right is an interocitor or possibly a death ray focused on new Mills golf club.
As you get closer to the metal structure the first thing of note is the top fence has old concrete posts like you see put up by official people when all the other field boundaries around this area are dry stone or wooden fence posts.
There is a curious metal tower with compartments in the bottom half.
The actual building is surrounded by piles of rocks and a double fence
The Stone walls are very odd being only a single thickness of rough stone buttressed here and there with beautifully dressed regular big stone blocks just on the inside.
The metal work is even more peculiar, Each corner pillar is placed in a deep walled recess which for some reason doesn't fill with water though all the other legs sit
on concrete pads at ground level.
The metalwork is all wrapped in very heavy polythene of the sort you would use for a DPC though in places it has gone hard and brittle, broken up and blown away.
However you look at it you can't figure out what it was meant to support, there are no continuous levels where you could mount a roof or platform and most of it isn't that substantial anyway.
Time to head over to the death ray but on the way there there is a hole surrounded by funny sticks.
Close up it seems to be a well full of water.
The interocitor is beginning to look like it might be home-made by bored but clever sheep.
Or perhaps it's a windmill (built by martians)
The only possible entrance is on this side but I couldn't see any way of opening it. Tapping the body it sounded like either fibre glass or well painted ply board.
The collapsing shed thing behind contained what looked like an old compressor some heavy duty sprocket and pully wheels and a very heavy RSJ frame.
Behind that was another heavy frame looking like it was a base for another big machine.
Further down the field was this.
Any ideas? It looks pretty derelict so I guess it belongs here.
Location: Near where Laneside Rd meets Over Hill Rd if you look to your right you see a couple of rather odd things.
It's hiding in the trees and further to the right is an interocitor or possibly a death ray focused on new Mills golf club.
As you get closer to the metal structure the first thing of note is the top fence has old concrete posts like you see put up by official people when all the other field boundaries around this area are dry stone or wooden fence posts.
There is a curious metal tower with compartments in the bottom half.
The actual building is surrounded by piles of rocks and a double fence
The Stone walls are very odd being only a single thickness of rough stone buttressed here and there with beautifully dressed regular big stone blocks just on the inside.
The metal work is even more peculiar, Each corner pillar is placed in a deep walled recess which for some reason doesn't fill with water though all the other legs sit
on concrete pads at ground level.
The metalwork is all wrapped in very heavy polythene of the sort you would use for a DPC though in places it has gone hard and brittle, broken up and blown away.
However you look at it you can't figure out what it was meant to support, there are no continuous levels where you could mount a roof or platform and most of it isn't that substantial anyway.
Time to head over to the death ray but on the way there there is a hole surrounded by funny sticks.
Close up it seems to be a well full of water.
The interocitor is beginning to look like it might be home-made by bored but clever sheep.
Or perhaps it's a windmill (built by martians)
The only possible entrance is on this side but I couldn't see any way of opening it. Tapping the body it sounded like either fibre glass or well painted ply board.
The collapsing shed thing behind contained what looked like an old compressor some heavy duty sprocket and pully wheels and a very heavy RSJ frame.
Behind that was another heavy frame looking like it was a base for another big machine.
Further down the field was this.
Any ideas? It looks pretty derelict so I guess it belongs here.
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