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9th Jan 2025  12:35  by dugswell2

FB Number: S7718  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

With Jill. Parked by Hightown with permission. Up via track to White Hill, then Hightown Hill + Trig then back down track. Walked along road to bag Barrs Hill next before crossing track to bag Bruntshields Hill followed by Back Hill then onto Shaw's Hill + Trig before descending down to the Crochmade Road. Headed towards the road before climbing Hempland Hill. Then walked back along the road to Hightown in 4 hours.

13th Nov 2024  12:11  by paulxtr

FB Number: S7718  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

From large layby NW of trig. Headed virtually straight to the pillar, bog and electric fence to negotiate. OS cap still present. Clag down, no view.

Shaws Hill ©paulxtr

14th Apr 2024  11:26  by Fiona

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

6th Apr 2024  13:28  by Robert Phillips

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

29th Feb 2024  17:53  by Wayne Mac

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Nice walk up from Tinwald along the lovely Crochmade Road to the point a track heads off at a gate to the trig. Then headed to the true summit further NE. Added the Tump of Back Hill to the N then back to Crochmade Road to Tinwald

At the trig pillar
At the trig pillar

23rd Feb 2024  15:41  by Fellmonkie

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 7/10

Cold walk in the hail with the dog but great views over Dumfries

28th May 2023  10:24  by Jim.Fothergill

FB Number: S7718  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

24th Jun 2022  07:20  by Oldhortus

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

Found a good place to park on the road to Damhead. Up to Black hill then across to the trig.

14th Apr 2022  08:56  by WanderingSal

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

The midden looked like it would hold my weight. I was wrong. Looked like there was a small craggy tarn nearby but also wrong, it held the ubiquitous metal farm rubbish.

29th Nov 2021  15:59  by vegibagger

FB Number: S7718  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Misty and already pretty dusky. Looked like some trees through the pea soup, near the top, which I'd not expected. Then all the trees moved and I realised it was a group of black cows and they were hiding the trig too. As I walked towards them some of the crunchy ground gave way by about 15-20cm and I realised I was walking through a small Quagmire mixture of mud and manure... Very thankful that I was wearing wellies. After I'd sprayed the FB with mould release oil and pressed my air dry clay into it, when I peeled it off I realised that it was mud spattered and so my moulding was very mucky too.

15th Oct 2020  13:38  by jonglew

Gridref: NY 01921 81759   FB Number: S7718  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Parked on the Crochmade Rd (NY 0287 8123). Started up the hill after 725m. Big cattle pasture, lot of cattle, feisty but manageable. Plinth exposed, likely some ground erosion; original centre cap retained, deeply indented lettering; all sight holes open. Extensive panoramic views.

Pillar TP5921©jonglew
Spider TP5921©jonglew
Flush Bracket TP5921©jonglew

9th Nov 2019  15:45  by Earby Rambler

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

Visited with P61, guarded with cattle quick pic & run down the hill. Off to The Robert The Bruce Wetherspoons in Dumfries next, for a well earned pint.

Approach
Trig

9th Nov 2019  15:45  by painterman61

FB Number: S7718  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Walked in on muddy tracks from the main road,then up the main ridge trig surrounded by cattle settled for night who stampede whilst at trig had to make a run for it.

trig ©painterman61
trig ©painterman61
top ©painterman61
fb ©painterman61

27th Jan 2017  16:30  by Mickandkim

FB Number: S7718  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Nice walk up lane then field with fox

30th Dec 2014  13:42  by CJO

Gridref: NY 01921 81752   FB Number: S7718  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

All intact. Polished FB. Foundations exposed. Bolt visible.

Shaws Hill bolt

25th Sep 2014  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: NY 01921 81751   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

with permission from Tinwald Shaws Farm to SW

3rd Mar 2012  14:56  by agentmancuso

Gridref: NY 01923 81756   FB Number: S7718  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

From track junction just east of Tinwald, straightforward apart from tight parking. Platform raised a few inches by cattle no doubt. Quick add-on after a few Dewey Donalds.

S7718 Shaws Hill

9th Jan 2009  12:00  by iainmac

FB Number: S7718  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

No view - fog. Ground near trig churned over.

S7718
S7718
S7718

5th Jun 2008  13:46  by clochandighter

Gridref: NY 01922 81750   FB Number: S7718  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

HISTORY: Pillar completed 4th September 1953 costing £15.17s.3d. Computed as tertiary triangulation station NX99/T29 within the Dumfries secondary block during 1954. Levelled for height to Class 1 precision, tertiary standards also in 1954. Last maintained by the OS in September 1968. SITE VISIT: Approached from northeast. Parked by roadside at NY028823. Headed across fields straight for trig by line of sight. Proved to be quite and obstacle course of tussocky grass on hard uneven ground, ditches, and boundaries of barb or electric fences combined with walls. Open grazing top. Pillar in good condition. Raised brown resin plug in spider. Flush bracket faces south, compass measurement 180°. Vented through left (west) and front (south) sighting holes. Open views in most directions.

S7718 - Shaws Hill pillar & FB

13th Nov 2005  12:00  by peregrinus

FB Number: S7718  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

vgc, brown resin plug, pasture, nice view

S7718 fb ©peregrinus
S7718 top ©peregrinus
S7718 trig ©peregrinus
S7718 sky ©peregrinus
S7718 trig ©peregrinus