Logged Visits:

30th Apr 2023  11:58  by CJO

Gridref: NT 81396 58076   FB Number: S6697  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

All intact. Render has cracks. Route up potato field to east. Farmer waved from tractor and planting rig.

Pillar

29th Jan 2023  12:30  by sheepsocks

FB Number: S6697  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

After reading logs, we expected this to be a pain to get to. But being winter, there were no cattle out on the pastures, so actually a pleasant 1km walk each way. Parked at the crossroads on the B road to the south, then up via the road/track to the east of Easter Cruicksfield and the big field.

28th Dec 2021  14:55  by Analoguesat

FB Number: S6697  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Im sure on a nice day this is a nice walk and the views southwards are impressive. At the end of December after lots of wet weather the lane from Lintlaw farm was a quagmire & the gate into the "bull field" was 6 inches deep in slurry. Plus there were trees & branches down everywhere after Storm Arwen a couple of weeks back. No bulls & no cattle in the field, just lots of sheep today. No views to speak of today thanks to the mist. I normally rate the Borders trig walks highly but this one was a strangely uninspiring walk. Maybe I'll do it again sometime on a nice day & see what it has to offer. Slight damage to the top & the surrounding plinth is breaking up badly. The boulders placed around it to deter the animals from getting too close are a slippery pita to cross.

Lintlaw The pillar on a miserably wet December afternoon©Analoguesat

24th Jul 2021  13:39  by NJM

FB Number: S6697  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

My second visit, slightly different route, which ended up a right palaver! Parked on the B6355 to the SE and walked up to the 'Bull Field'. There were clearly a lot of cows in the field, resting up by the wall that runs up NW towards the TP. So we hopped over the wall into the wheat field to the E of the 'Bull Field' and followed the field edge up to the small plantation. This hadn't actually got us past the cows, so we continued along E of the plantation where we went over another wall and into a rather overgrown break in the plantation through a gate into the field that is N of the 'Bull Field'...which was also full of cows! They started coming towards us but we quickly headed up through a gate into the 'Bull Field'. Whereupon the cows in the 'Bull Field', alerted by their mates in the next field, also came to investigate! However, satisfied we weren't intent on feeding them, eating them or mating with them they did what cows usually do, and buggered off. Leaving us to admire the excellent views S and return by the route we had hoped to use in the first place!

View South East Storm's OS Pillar #224
View North West With added beef.

21st Oct 2020  13:50  by Oldhortus

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 8/10

Left the car at Lintlaw farm. Followed the track until it turn south - I turn to the N/W to take a direct line to the trig. The view is amazing

14th Feb 2020  16:30  by allankelly

FB Number: S6697  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Muddy but nice location. Not very high so views are not the best but the hills to the south are in clear view. Dog loved the mud and sheep poo!

Mud dog Dickens loves mud!
Looking north west
The top
S6697

17th Dec 2019  08:40  by A1Mushroom

FB Number: S6697  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Second visit due to the cows and bull in the field last time. Parked at NT818578 due to the little parking space at NT819574 being churned up and deeply rutted (also a bit short on time today). No cows this time but plenty of sheep.

14th Dec 2019  14:56  by Old-hortus

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 9/10

Wow what a view south. A must do trig! Easy walk from Lintlaw farm

24th Aug 2019  15:00  by Mickandkim

Gridref: NT 81394 58078   FB Number: S6697  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Cows and more cows

26th Feb 2019  14:25  by beckroad

FB Number: S6697  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Parked at Lintlaw Farm and walked west along a track. Weather unpredictably very warm 16 degrees for February. Pillar situated next to a lovely white lichen stone wall and spider intact. Plinth is broken on SW base. Also the top part of the pillar is cracked. Fantastic views especially to south.The green pasture field is more like Telly Tubby land than a home for a bull.

23rd Feb 2019  13:05  by Nick&Rosie

FB Number: S6697  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Memorable for a pair of buzzards hovering and swooping above us, coming very close at times, as we approached N up the 'Bull Field' (no bull).

View North
View East with Rosie & Watson
View South
View West

15th Sep 2018  14:50  by coinea

Gridref: NT 81391 58073   FB Number: S6697  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

S6697 Lintlaw

15th Sep 2018  14:49  by clochandighter

FB Number: S6697  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

Third visit. Comments from last visit of 2009 still stand: "Overall approach from east. Parked in Lintlaw. Walked mapped track to gate into trig field. The farmer said that April (2009 visit) was a good time to visit as the field would be populated with cattle and young calves in the following month. The trig column stands at the northerly edge of the grazing field. Cracks in top of pillar have the potential of becoming serious. The base has been reinforced at ground level to combat erosion by cattle but this in turn is starting to disintegrate. Spider retains OS centre cap with deep indented letters. The flush bracket faces SSE, compass measurement 153°. Vented through back (NW) sight hole. "

5th Sep 2017  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: NT 87395 58073   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

19th Dec 2015  14:00  by Borderer

FB Number: S6697  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Up from Lintlaw via the decent farm track. The pillar does not appear to have deteriorated much since the last log back in 2009. Decent views.

©Borderer

11th Apr 2009  16:34  by clochandighter

Gridref: NT 81396 68070   FB Number: S6697  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Second visit. For GPS reading and photographs. Overall approach from east. Parked in Lintlaw. Walked mapped track to gate into trig field. The farmer said that April was a good time to visit as the field would be populated with cattle and young calves in the following month. The trig column stands at the northerly edge of the grazing field. Cracks in top of pillar have the potential of becoming serious. The base has been reinforced at ground level to combat erosion by cattle but this in turn is starting to disintegrate. Spider retains OS centre cap with deep indented letters. The flush bracket faces SSE, compass measurement 153°. Vented through back (NW) sight hole.

S6697 - Lintlaw pillar & FB

6th Apr 2009  12:26  by arranc

Gridref: NT 81300 58000   FB Number: S6697  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

12th Sep 2008  13:21  by fasgadh

Gridref: NT 81393 58076   FB Number: S6697  Condition: Damaged  Score: 4/10

The cattle over the years have undermined the concrete base. South side of the dyke in a cattle grazed field, metalwork all there, cracking up.

12th Sep 2008  00:00  by Border Peat

FB Number: S6697  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

sign on gate beware of bull cows in field so kept low profile in next field up to wood over wall didnt waste time not sure if there was a bull

23rd Sep 2007  12:00  by peregrinus

FB Number: S6697  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Network of deep cracks. Metal cap, deep letters. S side of wall at summit. Pasture.

21st Sep 2004  12:00  by iainmac

FB Number: S6697  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

S6697
S6697
S6697

31st Aug 1993  15:33  by clochandighter

FB Number: S6697  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

First visit. To record FB number. HISTORY Pillar completed 22nd November 1951 costing £13.8s.0d. Computed as tertiary triangulation station NT86/T17 within the Berwick secondary block during 1953. Flush bracket S6697 was levelled for height to first class precision, tertiary standards in October 1953. This pillar station was last maintained by the Ordnance Survey in September 1982.