What is / was this ?

20 Feb 2022 15:10 #1 by PETERTHEEATER
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I have not been able to match the linked image to a map or sat view any certainty.

The centre of the image if stated as: SP57652 14683

Initially, look at the image zoomed up a little and locate the top border centre (12 o'clock position) shown by a notched arrowhead.. Move slightly to the left and locate the road/track then move vertically down into the first open space where you will see a clump of trees. Immediately below that is the unidentified object.

Appears to be a wall with slightly cranked ends.To its right is a depression which might have, once, been another. The object resembles the retaining wall of a stop butt.

Any ideas?

Can you match the image to the ground as seen today?

LINK: www.pictureoxon.com/frontend.php?action=...;POX0451097&prevUrl=

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20 Feb 2022 16:04 #2 by Peter Kirk
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The centre point should be SP 63710 14771. Not sure what the wall bit is as it is on a rising slope.

No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)

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20 Feb 2022 16:43 #3 by kebecker
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I am guessing farming related, images 35 to 40 in this link are interesting. www.pictureoxon.com/frontend.php?&pages=...5otmoor%25%3B&page=2

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21 Feb 2022 12:13 #4 by PETERTHEEATER
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Thanks Peter. And the mystery structure is still visible in GE May 2020.
It would appear that the NGR in the record is completely wrong. I find it difficult to navigate using the I km square references given which, in this case are:

Vertical aerial view of Fencott and Murcott - covering Ordnance Survey 1km grid squares: SP5613, SP5614, SP5615, SP5713, SP5714, SP5715, SP5813, SP5814, SP5815

So these too are incorrect. How many more images have I skipped because the 1km grid refs shown did not fit my search requirement?

Thanks too kebecker for pointing out the Ot Moor 'bomb' images taken some years before I set foot on the squelch with RAF BD.

Image 35 is a 250 pound Target Indicator casing

Image 36 and 37 are a Cluster Projectile casing which I cannot identify, possible a US type. Unlike TIs which buried themselves in the soft soil, a cluster casing would land and stay on the surface so easily collected.

Image 38 may well be this Stop Butt here:
wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm?lat=5...grat=None&rgrat=None

Image 39 is a Practice Bomb but, without scale cannot be more specific.Buried heads common but tails rust through in the acidic soil quickly.

Image 40 is a Tail Unit for a 250 pound TI probably a No 35 Mk 1 which were very common.
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23 Feb 2022 09:11 #5 by Ossington_2008
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I thought I'd piggy-back this existing thread to post another image I have found. Reputedly for loading onto a Coastal Command Liberator. Looks like flares and sea markers or something similar to me. Anyone care to give a more precise description please?

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23 Feb 2022 16:29 #6 by PETERTHEEATER
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Using the RH man as reference:

1. The first three stores are Navigation Flame Floats Mk II
2. The single long store is a Marker Marine Mk II
3. The five stores on the left are Aluminium Sea Markers Mk III
4. Not sure because I can't see the tails clearly but appear to be Flame Floats
5. The three long items at the front are Marine Markers Mk II. They have no suspension bands fitted for carriage on a Light Series Bomb Carrier so would be loaded and dropped via a Flare Chute.

Note: Stores 2 and 5, despite having similar Nomenclatures are not the same.

Many marine markers contained very fine aluminium powder. If this got on your skin it was a heck of a job to remove!

A sharper copy of this image is in the Imperial War Museum collection Reference CH12372

Here are a few hundred we (RAF Bomb Disposal) dug up at St Eval in April 1966:

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