Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 8:45 am
Plenty of bomb craters in the Kilpatrick hills. The RCAHMS has some great pictures of the area just after the war, with many craters still visible.
The Control Bunker (NS 4204 7753) is actually down the hill a bit between two areas of woodland (west side of the stream). The starfish site (NS 421 781) is just to the east and south east of the water filled craters, north of the bunker, by a fence line and the trackway that leads up from the bunker. If you look closely you may be able to see some of the foundations where the oil was burnt.
The buildings to the north which were annotated on the image on the earlier post as the location of the bunker were in fact a farmstead, but and this is a guess, abandoned as a farmstead when the starfish site was constructed.
The Control Bunker (NS 4204 7753) is actually down the hill a bit between two areas of woodland (west side of the stream). The starfish site (NS 421 781) is just to the east and south east of the water filled craters, north of the bunker, by a fence line and the trackway that leads up from the bunker. If you look closely you may be able to see some of the foundations where the oil was burnt.
The buildings to the north which were annotated on the image on the earlier post as the location of the bunker were in fact a farmstead, but and this is a guess, abandoned as a farmstead when the starfish site was constructed.