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24th Feb 2024  11:45  by SeaChange

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Toppled  Score: 4/10

©SeaChange

29th Nov 2023  14:39  by Lynnebe

FB Number: S3158  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

Death of a Trig Point. From Balbirnie Park, good parking in S carpark off B9130. Along FPW turning off towards Dalginch Farm. Over gate after farm and straight to Dalginch trig. Back same way and S back to FPW. Up past Newton Hall and Burnside to do a beautiful circuit of Donald Rose Reservoir. N past Ballinkirk, through Milldeans Wood and Kirkforthar Wood. S on track past Cardsknolls and up stubble field before housing. Found recumbent Hilton trig in dump near its original position. FB still visible. Continued past Star Moss and over Cuinin Hill on good paths back to Balbirnie Park. 25km of beautiful countryside on cold, frosty day.

6th Jul 2022  12:35  by Oldhortus

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Toppled  Score: 5/10

Sad to see trig just push into hole with other farm rubbish.

22nd Oct 2021  11:41  by Fife Walking

Gridref: NO 30503 05442   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Toppled  Score: 1/10

My final Fife trig.

©Fife Walking
©Fife Walking

6th Jun 2021  16:12  by A1Mushroom

FB Number: S3158  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

As below from caroleengel. Including the tip toeing through the crops.

9th May 2021  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: NO 30512 05428   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

No one in at any of farm buildings, so tiptoed across to the moved trig - easy find by (dry) pond marked on map

16th Jan 2019  13:07  by agentmancuso

Gridref: NO 30514 05434   FB Number: S3158  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

Came to look for this one a decade or so ago, but crops prevented getting closer than the road. Field ploughed into narrow drills today, crop not yet visible. The pillar has been moved from nr the top of the hill to beside the small pond marked on the 1:25k. Intact and in near perfect condition, but lying on its side with the FB facing south. Met the local again on the way down, very civil. Edit: Found my record from 11/08/2011: Couldn't get at it. A very helpful elderly gentleman in the drive provided a detailed description of how to spot the pillar sticking up above the corn from the corner of the track. The houses marked on the map on the way up are all ruins now.

Where it should be
Where it is
FB

18th Jan 2018  13:07  by Robert Phillips

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Toppled  Score: 5/10

28th Dec 2017  10:15  by Wubbleyew

FB Number: S3158  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

All quiet in the tiny settlement of Hilton Forthar - no inquisitive farmer around today. Fortunately, the trig-containing field had nothing planted there, so it was an easy plod over the frosty and icy stubbles of the bygone harvest. Cap remains in place with shallow lettering, two s/h's open, one closed, and one hidden. Beautiful sunny winter's day with the frost glittering.

10th Jun 2017  11:53  by Cootking

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Unreachable but visible  Score: 5/10

Middle of crop field so gazed from afar, couple of hundred yards.

Trig on horizon.

11th Sep 2015  13:15  by BeardScot

Gridref: NO 30413 05374   FB Number: S3158  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

The legend is true. Stubble field. English gent enquiring about my visit.

Trig and distant hill

26th Mar 2015  09:30  by Chalky

FB Number: S3158  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Cap with indented lettering.

3rd Jan 2015  11:15  by Mickandkim

Gridref: NO 30416 05380   FB Number: S3158  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Old gent still there Easy no crop today

14th Jul 2012  19:30  by pjr

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

spotted from farmhouse of eccentric English man from Winchester originally.Moved here to farm chickens.He owns all the farms here but they all seem to be falling down.

29th Jan 2011  14:05  by coinea

Gridref: NO 30417 05373   FB Number: S3158  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Field tilled to fine drills. If crop planted not showing yet.

S3158Hilton.

21st Nov 2009  14:35  by andyc

FB Number: S3158  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Jesus saves! says the barn nearby but this trig is an unxciting agricultural one.

25th Oct 2009  16:28  by Fester

FB Number: S3158  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Walked up to watch the sunset over the Lomonds.Stubble in field.

Trig View over to the Lomonds©Fester

12th Nov 2008  11:10  by Sandman

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Middle of stubble field

9th Feb 2007  12:00  by peregrinus

FB Number: S3158  Condition: Good  Score: 4/10

vgc, metal cap, shallow letters, among polytunnels.

11th May 2005  12:00  by iainmac

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 0/10

Revisited to photograph but this time new grass so another visit later in the year.

26th Nov 2004  18:00  by fasgadh

Gridref: NO 30413 05373   FB Number: S3158  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Middle of a stubble field.. No winter crops - Yay!!! Easy one almost a drive up. They have lit Mossmoran up again, so big flame in the view. Need to ask them for a tip - I sometimes have arguments with unlightable bunsens. Loads of lights from Edinburgh too.

Hilton
Hilton
Hilton

27th Mar 2004  10:48  by clochandighter

Gridref: NO 30418 05374   FB Number: S3158  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Built in October 1943 as a tertiary station in Secondary Block NT48, Edinburgh. Pillar in v.g.c but looking vulnerable standing in the middle of a recently ploughed field. Spider retains original OS centre plug with shallow engraved lettering. Flush bracket faces north west. L&R sighting holes open, others plugged. Views to Dalginch, North Berwick Law, Lammer Law, Blackhope Scar, Dundreich, Arthurs Seat, Allermuir Hill, Scald Law, West Cairn Hill, Orrock Hill, Benarty Hill, West Lomond and East Lomond. Originally visited 4/10/1986. Revisited and photographed 27/03/2004, GRP.

S3158 - Hilton Trig Pillar, FB etc.
Trig pillar front from the north west.
Trig pillar & East Lomond from the east.
Trig pillar from the west.
View to East Lomond.

21st Jan 2004  12:00  by iainmac

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

Revisited to photograph but as field newly sown will be back again.

S3158

19th Aug 2003  12:00  by iainmac

FB Number: S3158  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

S3158

4th Oct 1986  11:08  by clochandighter

FB Number: S3158  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Trig 2 of 6 for the day. Clockwise walking route starting and finishing at Markinch station. First visit. To record FB number. The pillar was completed in October 1943 costing £4.18s.0d. This marker was originally computed for triangulation in 1943 as tertiary station NT48/T21 in the Edinburgh secondary block, and recomputed as same in 1987. The flush bracket was levelled for height in 1967. This trig point was last maintained by the OS on 27th June 1986.