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30th Mar 2021  16:46  by 1473

Gridref: SU 60366 91078   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Easily found based on others’ descriptions in the depression have way from ROW waymarker and fence post. Quick to uncover (first outing for my new trig trowel), good condition. Slightly recovered.

Uncovered Surface Block ©1473

21st May 2020  11:20  by tomg

Gridref: SU 60351 91080   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

23rd Apr 2017  07:30  by thejackrustles

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Parked next to it. I think it was Mr U2 who spotted the depression and the block was soon found.

Severalls

31st Jan 2016  12:48  by jonglew

Gridref: SU 60354 91081   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Parked next to it. Quickly spotted the depression so no need for measuring. Dug round to expose it more fully and left it open. 2" bolt in concrete.

Surface Block - Location TP7904©jonglew
Surface Block - Location TP7904©jonglew
Surface Block TP7904©jonglew

17th Jun 2014  17:21  by vw_keychain

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Easily found following others descriptions of the location. Block is in a small dug out hollow approximately half way between the footpath sign and the right-hand gatepost.

19th Aug 2013  17:34  by jochta

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Easily found near the footpath sign neatly flagged by a sapling. It's in a little pit as excavated before.

Surface Block

8th Aug 2013  19:53  by Griefmiester

Gridref: SU 60352 91084   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 3/10

Easily located at road side by footpath, look for the dip in the ground to the right of the footpath! (or for more precise directions look at dal's log :)) - all in good condition large brass surface block.

Surface Block and Bolt
GPS Data

19th Jun 2013  17:10  by peregrinus

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2" bolt in block. My pacing (!) suggests 3m from fp sign and 2.8 from N gate post. Anyway it's just N of the grass path, in leaf litter, in direct line between sign and gate post. Apologies for re excavating dal's holes!

24th Feb 2012  16:16  by RogerTempleman

Gridref: SU 60353 91092   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Easily found thanks to David Lever's measurements: to be clear the bolt is between the footpath sign and the gatepost. I removed the sappling to expose more of the block.

Location of station

27th Jan 2012  07:26  by Trigger

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TP7904
TP7904

26th Dec 2011  14:50  by dal

Gridref: SU 60351 91080   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Station SU59/T056. Block. In the scrubby verge on the W side of the Shillingford to Wallingford road, by the start of a FP across the fields. I measured the Bolt as being 3.1 m from the northerly gatepost and 3.5m from the FP sign. Spade job. To begin with I found a solid surface, which I think is the buried drive into the field, but the concrete was not really OS quality. Then I tried to the N of this and found the block with the bolt almost under a sapling, about 20cm below the surface. I left it clear, but I guess it will become re-buried. Not a bad location, with good views to the W to the Ridgeway from the adjacent field.

The Bolt
The location With the sapling above
The block and the road Later photograph (8/1/12).