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21st Nov 2023  11:17  by Tring38

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Saskill Cairn, will look for bolt & rivets when I'm there in a couple of days©Tring38
Saskill cairn©Tring38

16th Sep 2023  11:44  by CJO

Gridref: SD 39522 84305   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Remains  Score: 5/10

Return visit. There are three witness rivets on surrounding rocks. Found a very convincing 1” dia round hole on buried rock at correct location. 6” below turf. The bolt has been removed. Left uncovered but built a small cairn over the top. There is a CBM on a rock outcrop by the mast - distance from there to GR is 31.17m. Small cut through route through wall is ~25m to west along wall from CBM. Distance to GR from cut though is 24.44m from there. Distance to rivet by summit cairn is 4.12m and from the other two rivets 7.20m and 2.31m.

CBM on rock by mast
cut through wall
view over summit cairn to mast, small cairn in foreground at GR with rock with witness rivet behind
drilled hole - round and with smooth flat base
Bedrock with round smooth hole

3rd Sep 2023  12:31  by CJO

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Found three rivets. None of which align with the 81ft dimension from wall which seems to emerge from a sheep gap, so these are almost certainly witness rivets. GR is in tussocky grass SW of cairn and here all three witness rivets surround it which makes sense. Nice spot when cloud clears. Will return.

GR is in between the two rocks with the witness rivets on them almost inline.

23rd Aug 2023  00:00  by StewB

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Out at 05:30am in the undertaking of a five trig assault, last five to complete The English Lakes OL7 map, Saskills, Grassgarth Heights, The Alps, How Barrow & Canon Winder...Off-road parking at Heights GR 40536 84547...'Taking' the track SW, with a right thro' a gate, veer left & walk along the Southern embankment of the reservoir. Follow the wall to climb a cross-wall & proceed up onto the summit area. 'Armed' with a download of a summit photograph showing the rivet positions thanx to Jonglew, location was successful once i'd realised from where exactly the photograph had been taken...Much thanx for that Jonglew. Further to that & for a 'riveting experiance' the three grid references are 39526 84319, 39525 84309 & 39522 84312.

26th Feb 2022  11:57  by peregrinus

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Still has triangle on 25k map. OS say height to Bolt in rock, seems most likely the 3 rivets are witness marks, but the middle one is usually large and matches the GR to 1m so maybe a large rivet with 2 witness marks? 5m S of the rivet by the cairn and c4m from the other rivet. Not an ideal spot to set up an instrument over so I'm dubious. Investigated a few mossy rocks between the 3 rivets but no bolt found. Up from caravan park to SW, descended SE to High Newton resr where there's parking. Back along the old road, a few BMs en route

25k map still as a trig symbol as of 2022

17th Aug 2020  12:58  by Sandgrownun

Gridref: SD 39525 84321   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Parked at SD40508 84475, Heights Road for a circular walk taking in Newton Reservoirs, Saskills, White Stone, into Chapel House Plantation, Simpson Ground Reservoir, Simpson Ground and followed farm track back to car. Nothing new to add about Rivet apart from it's still there by cairn.

Saskills Rivet
Saskills Cairn

16th Aug 2020  12:04  by ADT

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Solo from Gummer’s How car park.

18th Nov 2019  15:55  by Morecambe Monkey

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Walked up from High Newton to reservoir then track on to the access land. Rivet on summit outcrop covered by one rock of the cairn which relocated to leave the rivet visible. Also took in the WO summit.

21st May 2019  12:41  by amblerbob

Gridref: SD 39522 84318   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

From Whitestone Caravan Park after visiting Wainwright's top on other side of wall

9th Jul 2018  13:33  by jonglew

Gridref: SD 39521 84325   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Well, what can I say? 3 rivets found: one on the summit rock - it was slightly obscured by the cairn, which I dismantled looking for a bolt and re-built to one side leaving the rivet clear; the other 2 found on nearby rocks to the south paced out at 5m and 9m. OS describe this as a Bolt, but it's been changed on T:UK to Rivet, so perhaps it is a rivet, perhaps it's the rivet on the summit rock. That's where my money is.

Rivet Locations TP7523©jonglew
Summit Cairn - in pieces TP7523©jonglew
Summit Cairn - re-built, with Rivet arrowed TP7523©jonglew
Rivet on summit rock TP7523©jonglew

29th Apr 2017  11:20  by painterman61

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Up from caravan site path easy to lose and theres a big wall to climb twice! Two rivets found could be a buried block somewhere fine views. This was a wainwright outlying top Newton fell summit,done after the lambrigg fell close to the M6.

Ist rivet ©painterman61
2nd rivet ©painterman61
Summit cairn ©painterman61
Lambrigg fell ©painterman61

10th Nov 2016  10:00  by Dusty

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Well I found the two Witness Rivets but found no Bolt. I'm sure it must be here somewhere. Rivets 21ft apart.

Rivet One
Rivet Two
Location

29th Jan 2014  00:00  by Curlew

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12th Jan 2014  13:09  by catman

Gridref: SD 39520 84320   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

On Wainwright walk. Reasonable views on cold day

8th Jan 2014  15:30  by Chalky

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From access land & reservoir to the E.

14th Apr 2013  13:51  by Aye Jimmy

Gridref: SD 39523 84322   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Rivet in rock on which sits the cairn. However, there is a SECOND rivet in another rock a few metres closer to the wall. Didn't have time to get a GR for that one though.

Saskills Rivet by cairn, GR taken for this one.
Saskills SECOND rivet in nearby rock - but which is the correct one?!
Saskills Rock by cairn and rock on right both have rivets.

22nd Mar 2012  19:34  by PeteBoggs

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Came up from PROW near Height farm - damaged rivet easy to spot

©PeteBoggs
©PeteBoggs

13th Aug 2011  13:40  by ted

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Up from caravan park on intermittent path/wet bracken. Small rivet, took a while to see it.

Saskills detail
Saskills site

23rd Apr 2011  14:35  by sheepsocks

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approached up hill from south-west on footpath through caravan site. By a cairn, nice views over reservoirs, with Old Man in the mist. Noise from the busy road below the hill very audible.

19th Oct 2010  14:45  by arranc

Gridref: SD 39526 84320   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

rivet found easily by cairn as described below

22nd Oct 2009  10:00  by chrisbombington

Gridref: SD 39526 84322   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

I agree with dal the small rivet being the only visible evidence of this being a trig,

Saskills (Newton Fell North) Summit cairn on saskills overlooking the two reservoirs (insert Rivet blown up its very small)

1st Sep 2009  19:25  by dal

Gridref: SD 39521 84315   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

OS name Saskills. Station number T046 in Secondary Block SD47. Listed as a Bolt - I found a slightly damaged rivet on the NW side of the cairn. I couldn't see a Bolt, although it could be hiding under the cairn. It is not unknown for bolts and rivets to be mixed up. So on balance I think the rivet is the mark, and I have marked it as Slightly damaged. When the convention changed from marking all trig marks to just pillars on 1:25k maps, clearly they overlooked removing this one. Sodden walk through thick bracken from the reservoirs. Sorry - no photo, I left my camera behind. Grid ref above is from the OS.

10th Jul 2009  12:02  by wrose

Gridref: SD 39526 84322   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 6/10

The OS map shows ther to be a trig point at this location. Wainwright's Outlying Fells book, page 55, shows trig point no column. The location has a cairn of stones on a rock outcrop. Views from here are lovely.

Saskills (Newton Fell North) OS Map location
Saskills GPS position
Saskills Location cairn

30th Mar 2009  13:15  by Hartryggers

Gridref: SD 39515 84285   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Parked just off the main road outside a caravan park once through the park easy route upto a wall, which the top is wrong side so needs negotiating, OS map shows a trig point but all I could find is a small rivit in the rock near the cairned summit

25th Dec 2008  12:34  by flipflopnick

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Hard find