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21st Mar 2023  12:24  by descarte1

Gridref: TM 11077 48646   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Buried FBM but some helpful previous visitor has it excavated and exposed. Easy to find at base of telegraph pole.

10th Mar 2020  09:50  by Chris9870

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Buried behind telegraph pole. Marked by two pieces of wood under a pile of leaves. Only the top showing.

14th May 2019  12:59  by orlando rat

Gridref: TM 11077 48643   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 4/10

Normally I can sense where the item is. This one not so much. Had to search for previous searchers photos and then followed the trail into the brambles. Still relatively clear.

Ipswich

15th Apr 2019  12:00  by iainmac

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1st Sep 2018  16:38  by plet56

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Lycra shorts and brambles aren't a good combination. Just about got to it

2nd Apr 2018  11:12  by CJO

Gridref: TM 11082 48642   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

More like a surface block. 2" bolt. Widened Jonglew's path and hacked a bigger path and cleared back soil. Left with wooden plank covering.

Ipswich
Ipswich

10th Oct 2017  12:45  by Griefmiester

Gridref: TM 11077 48647   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 3/10

found quite easily after a stomp through the undergrowth and a bit on foot digging!, good condition

5th Sep 2016  10:00  by dugswell2

Gridref: TM 11070 48640   FB Number: NONE  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Jon Glue does have his uses and I am always pleased to audit the quality of his work.

30th Aug 2016  20:01  by THE CYCLIST

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Thanks to Longlew's hard work! Path into the jungle still clear and square excavation to expose the FBM.

31st Jul 2016  07:10  by jonglew

Gridref: TM 11077 48647   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 3/10

This was a stinker and only but for previous logs did I find it, although I subsequently discovered an OS sketch is available. A bramble-fest, but long trousers, long gaiters, gardening gloves and secateurs will always beat bramble - as it proved today! The 'FBM' is described on the OS sketch as a bolt, so suspect this is not the usual FBM pillar. Anyway, the soil was iron-hard and with limited access was unable to dig it out. Measured as 92cm SE of the telegraph pole - further than I was initially looking. Left it uncovered.

Initial presentation - yep there's the telegraph pole TP0551©jonglew
A path is beaten TP0551©jonglew
The ground is cleared TP0551©jonglew
A bolt is revealed, but it's not really this big TP0551©jonglew

23rd May 2015  12:09  by mntainman

Gridref: TM 11062 48651   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

19th May 2014  17:30  by Tomaszewski

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Piece of board over hole , very overgrown with thistle etc .

24th Dec 2013  11:30  by Martin R

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Staying with friends for Yule nearby and pretending I was going just going out for a walk for some fresh air. Took some finding and it was very muddy.

17th Dec 2011  11:00  by peregrinus

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Revisit in passing as I recognised the spot in passing. Just behind phone pole, reasonably bramble free. Was going to compliment the person who put the board over the hole but apparently it was me! A quick scrabble in the soft soil quickly found the Bolt - that was as far as I went.

1st Dec 2009  08:50  by Trigger

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Couldn't find it  Score: 5/10

TP0551

20th Jan 2008  12:00  by peregrinus

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3rd time lucky: evidently visited recently, with the brambles mown to make wide visibility splay, and FBM almost exposed in square hole. I left a board over it. Too much loose soil to see any details, other than the usual metal dome; rough concrete surface.

23rd Mar 2006  13:46  by asteroth

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Have been able to clear a path to the FBM.Brass stud with engraved arrow set in concrete block below soil level.

The Bolt
The Bolt,The Pole,The Brambles.

1st Aug 2005  14:30  by asteroth

Gridref: TM 11077 48643   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Invalid condition!  Score: 5/10

Hidden under the brambles somewhere.Will return when brambles die down.BT pole and manhole cover to the left of FBM site.See Photo

Not much chance of getting in there and having a look According to notes the FBM is below ground level

31st Dec 2004  15:30  by elsworth

FB Number: N/A  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Inspired (maybe awed) by Rod and JWR's excavations in Derbyshire, revisited with a 'prodder' (aka screwdriver) and found the pillar / raised bolt immediately in the existing dip. This is a 'surface block' style FBM - with an engraved bolt rather then the 'datum mark' seen on original pillars - armed with just a screwdriver I decided against digging out the whole pillar, so I don't know (yet) whether there's an OS plate on the side. Re-reading the OS sketch, it does state 'bolt is 15cm below ground'!

Ipswich FBM Bolt was just visible in excavation at centre of picture

26th Sep 2004  13:30  by sanjaypaul

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Couldn't find it  Score: 5/10

Intended to calibrate my handheld Garmin GPS Device for altitude. The location is completely under massive bush and barbed wired fencing. Could not access beyond the post.

16th Jul 2004  08:50  by elsworth

FB Number: N/A  Condition: Couldn't find it  Score: 5/10

In spite of a diagram and a photo from the OS site, I still haven't found anything convincing here ... Maybe a revisit when the brambles have died back!