It is a man made water feature. Specifically for decoying ducks to alight on, or towards, for the sole purpose of despatching an ounce and a quarter of Eley's finest shot at!
Traditional pastime in the Fens. Dummy/model ducks are floated on the water/ponds to lure passing ducks onto landing to feed. Ducks then despatched by said Eley Kynoch or with nets fired over the ponds with rockets.
Are you all quackers? As PNK points out it is between the locations of two WW2 ranges which is why I spotted it. I dismissed it as a duck decoy because it looks too ornate but the location is right.
Kebecker, punt guns are not very sporting, Denis and I as gentlemen prefer the dawn skirmish with the Purdeys and bespoke cartridge loads (He he! mine is the military full auto with magnum loads and rate of fire 600 per minute bolted to a Motley stalk mount)
It looks like it has been restored as the 1999 image looks overgrown. Unless GE is badly dated, which it can be in certain circumstances when using the slider.
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
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